Norman v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
25 F.3d 1259 · 1994
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Wilkins v. Gaddy (2010), United States v. Walsh (1999)
32 federal appellate · 8 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Wilson v. Seiter · Whitley v. Albers · Ingraham v. Wright · Hudson v. McMillian
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a plaintiff cannot prevail on an Eighth Amendment excessive force claim if his injury is de minimis.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“de minimis injury can serve as conclusive evidence that de minimis force was used.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharon Carr, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Morgan, Deceased v. V. S. Deeds, Individually and as an Agent of the State of West Virginia Howard E. Hill, Jr., as Superintendent of the West Virginia State Police, in His Official Capacity State of West Virginia, and T.D. Bradley, Individually and as an Agent of the State of West Virginia, Sharon Carr, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Morgan, and Joshua Morgan, Deceased v. T.D. Bradley, Individually and as an Agent of the State of West Virginia Howard E. Hill, Jr., as Superintendent of the West Virginia State Police, in His Official Capacity State of West Virginia · Riley v. Dorton“of a sort repugnant to the conscience of mankind”
5 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.