268 F. Supp. 804 - Jackson v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011
9 federal appellate ·
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 Robinson v. State of California · Cooper v. Pate · Ex parte Hull · John Alfred Lee v. Ralph H. Tahash, Warden · Talley v. Stephens
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or prison officials knowingly to compel convicts to perform physical labor which is beyond their strength, or which constitutes a danger to their lives or health, or which is unduly painful constitutes an infliction of cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eight Amendment to the Constitution of the United States as included in the 14th Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ray v. Mabry“until additional rules and regulations are promulgated with appropriate safeguards * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Bishop“[t]he use of any such devices as the crank telephone or teeter board”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Bishop
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.