Farmer v. Perrill’s Empirical Analysis
288 F.3d 1254 · 2002
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Roska v. Peterson (2003), Olsen
32 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that plaintiff has identified a well established right, the right not to be subjected to a humiliating strip search in full view of several (or perhaps many) others unless the procedure is reasonably related to a legitimate penological interest. We also conclude that the identified right of the plaintiff was clearly established at the time of the May 1993 search in question so that a reasonable officer would have known that a decision to subject inmates to demeaning searches in public requires justification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is whether the law was clearly established at the time of the constitutional violation, Harlow makes clear that other factors may be relevant in determining the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the law was clearly established when the alleged violation occurred.”
2 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.