Barnett v. Centoni’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 813 · 1994
Citation profile
154 federal appellate · 23 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 618 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Rhodes v. Robinson (2004), Pratt v. Rowland (1995)
154 federal appellate · 23 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Hudson v. Palmer · Bounds v. Smith · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Tw Electrical Service Inc Nn v. Pacific Electrical Contractors Association · Shaw v. Barr
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 618 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prisoner suing prison officials under section 1983 for retaliation must allege that he was retaliated against for exercising his constitutional rights and that the retaliatory action does not advance legitimate penological goals, such as preserving institutional order and discipline.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“significant probative evidence tending to support the complaint.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the evidence, read in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, demonstrates that there is no genuine issue of material fact, and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
4 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.