Alton’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 323 Mich. App. 1 - Melissa Mays v. Governor Rick Snyder (2018), Ibarra v. Harris County Texas (2007)
4 state decisions
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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · United States v. Virginia · Doe v. Taylor Independent School District · Bennett v. City of Slidell
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he right to be free of state-occasioned damage to a person's bodily integrity is protected by the fourteenth amendment guarantee of due process.”
1 later decision 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.