Thomas v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 557 · 1994
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Antonelli v. Sheahan (1996), Swanson v. Citibank, N.A. (2010)
31 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Toussaint v. McCarthy · Benson v. Cady · Early v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · Northington v. Jackson
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plead particulars, and they show he has no claim, then he is out of luck--he has pleaded himself out of court.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[m]ental torture is not an oxymoron, and has been held or assumed in a number of prisoner cases ... to be actionable as cruel and unusual punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“which is a correct statement of the required state of mind,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steidl v. Gramley
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.