Robinson v. Cavanaugh’s Empirical Analysis
20 F.3d 892 · 1994
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2019
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Parratt v. Taylor · Neitzke v. Williams · Zinermon v. Burch
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in protective custody based on his general fear for his safety.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“based on an indisputably meritless legal theory”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[tlhere is no constitutional right to prison wages and any such compensation is by the grace of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garnett v. Brock
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.