Davis v. Goord’s Empirical Analysis
320 F.3d 346 · 2003
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 14 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Hemphill v. New York (2004), Tracy v. Freshwater (2010)
33 federal appellate · 14 district · 7 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 Conley v. Gibson · Wolff v. McDonnell · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Crawford-El v. Britton
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a similarly situated individual of ordinary firmness”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Courts properly approach prisoner retaliation claims 'with skepticism and particular care,' because 'virtually any adverse action taken by a prison official-even those otherwise not rising to the level of a constitutional violation-can be characterized as a constitutionally proscribed retaliatory act.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that the speech or conduct at issue was protected, (2) that the defendant took adverse action against the plaintiff, and (3) that there was a causal connection between the protected speech 7 and the adverse action.”
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.