Rd Jones v. Thuworn Shields’s Empirical Analysis
207 F.3d 491 · 2000
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Johnson v. Blaukat (2006), Sutton
13 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Siegert v. Gilley · Johnson v. Jones
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“administration of [pepper spray] in this prison setting resulted in de minimis injury for Eighth Amendment purposes.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edward v. Bowersox · Lawrence“consider[ing] the extent of the pain inflicted in order to determine whether a constitutional deprivation has occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edward v. Bowersox · Lawrence“A court evaluating a claim of qualified immunity `must first determine whether the plaintiff has alleged the deprivation of an actual constitutional right at all, and if so, proceed to determine whether that right was clearly established at the time of the alleged violation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sutton
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.