Skinner v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 483 · 2005
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Estate of DiMarco v. Wyoming Department of Corrections, Division of Prisons (2007), Collazo v. Nicholson (2008)
8 federal appellate · 11 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Farmer v. Brennan · Sandin v. Conner · Whitley v. Albers · 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“segregation was rational, that its duration was not excessive, and that the central condition— isolation from other prisoners—was essential to its purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Perry v. Spencer · ESTATE OF“unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain constitutes cruel and unusual punishment forbidden by the Eighth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Segrain v. Duffy · Dyette v. Black
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.