Housley v. Dodson’s Empirical Analysis
41 F.3d 597 · 1994
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Perkins v. Kansas Department of Corrections (1999), Gff Corporation v. Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc (1997)
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Hishon v. King & Spalding · Bounds v. Smith · Hafer v. Melo · Energy Cooperative, Inc. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Meade v. Grubbs
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that some form of regular outdoor exercise is extremely important to the psychological and physical well being of inmates, and some courts have held a denial of fresh air and exercise to be cruel and unusual punishment under certain circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there may be cases where a prisoner is denied access for such a short time that prejudice would have to be shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barry v. Wilson Toon
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.