Gomez v. Chandler’s Empirical Analysis
163 F.3d 921 · 1999
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Wilkins v. Gaddy (2010), Oliver v. Keller (2002)
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1746 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Whitley v. Albers · Hudson v. McMillian · Yohey v. Collins · Siglar II v. Hightower · Zehner v. Trigg
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o support an Eighth Amendment excessive force claim a prisoner must have suffered from the excessive force a more than de minimis physical injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.