Gettleman v. Werner’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Dugger (1985), McDonell v. Hunter (1987)
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 1791 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Pierson v. Ray · Johnson v. Glick · Stroud v. United States · Lanza v. State of New York
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. [Pjrison guards must have discretion to act quickly and decisively, and other reasonable procedures in everyday disciplinary problems should not be employed to handcuff prison guards.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lee v. Downs · Ferguson v. Cardwell
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.