Aldrich v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
388 F.3d 159 · 2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Nelson v. Campbell Commissioner Alabama Department of Corrections et al. · Harris v. Johnson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the difficult question of how to categorize method-of-execution claims generally,” to mean that a prisoner may not use § 1983 to challenge the method of his execution when such a challenge fails to allege”
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.