Pelfrey v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.3d 1034 · 1995
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Sammye R. Holloway v. Sally Brush Clermont County, Ohio (2000), Renee Soper, a Minor, by Her Mother and Next Friend, Lina Soper (1999)
23 federal appellate · 3 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 Graham v. Connor · Wilson v. Seiter · Whitley v. Albers · Ingraham v. Wright · Hudson v. McMillian
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“specifically stated that the defendants acted outside the scope of their employment and in bad faith when they cut his hair”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“were given sufficient notice of the fact that they were being sued in their individual capacity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a violation of the Eighth Amendment will nevertheless occur if the offending conduct reflects an unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.”
2 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.