Patton v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Kemmler · Nelson v. Campbell Commissioner Alabama Department of Corrections et al. · Hill v. McDonough · Gomez v. United States District Court for Northern District of California a-767
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that [the plaintiff] has failed to establish a significant possibility of success on the merits of his Eighth Amendment claims”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamilton v. Jones
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.