Bolden v. Mandel’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1995
4 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Rochin v. People of California · District of Columbia v. Carter · Johnson v. Glick · Basista v. Weir
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We agree with the majority of federal courts which have considered the question that where, as here, money damages are sought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , some personal involvement by the defendant Í3 required; the doctrine of respondeat superior does not apply. See, e. g., Jennings v. Davis, 476 F.2d 1271 (8th Cir. 1973); Adams v. Pate, 445 F.2d 105 (7th Cir. 1971); Madison v. Gerstein, 440 F.2d 338 (5th Cir. 1971); Dunham v. Crosby, 435 F.2d 1177 (1st Cir. 1970); Campbell v. Anderson, 335 F.Supp. 483 (D.Del.1971); Sanberg v. Daley, 306 F.Supp. 277 (N.D. Ill.1969); But, compare, Carter v. Carlson, 144 U.S.App.D.C. 388 , 447 F.2d 358 (1971), rev’d on other grounds, 409 U.S. 418 , 93 S.Ct. 602 , 34 L.Ed.2d 613 (1973), and Hill v. Toll, 320 F.Supp. 185 (E.D.Pa.1970).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilkerson v. Sarver“Not every push or shove, even if it may later seem unnecessary in the peace of a judge’s chambers, violates a prisoner’s constitutional rights. In determining whether the constitutional line has been crossed, a court must look to such factors as the need for the application of force, the relationship between the need and the amount of force that was used, the extent of injury inflicted, and whether force was applied in a good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Suits v. Lynch“not usually the most gentle or tractable of men and women ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burton v. Livingston
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.