Thomas v. Gunter’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.3d 1258 · 1994
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably United States v. Walsh (1999), Yu Kikumura v. Hurley (2001)
19 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Edelman v. Jordan · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“judgments regarding prison security `are peculiarly within the province and professional expertise of corrections officials, and . . . courts should ordinarily defer to their expert judgment in such matters'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Eleventh Amendment does not otherwise affect suits against public officials in their individual capacities[.]”
1 later decision 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.