Gillis v. Litscher’s Empirical Analysis
468 F.3d 488 · 2006
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Estate of Rice ex rel. Rice v. Correctional Medical Services (2012), Mays v. Springborn (2009)
15 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Mathews v. Eldridge · Farmer v. Brennan · Sandin v. Conner · Wilson v. Seiter
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“certain significant distinctions exist between that case and Gillis’s. Trammell’s behavior was significantly more uncontrollable. In a 5-week period he was cited for 16 disciplinary violations. Gil-lis had only been at Supermax for 2 weeks, and the rule he violated had only been uniformly enforced for about one week, before he was placed in the BMP. He had only one conduct report, and that grew out of the same behavior giving rise to his BMP-sleeping the wrong way on his bed. Furthermore, Tram-mell was able to receive a blanket and mattress after 48 hours if he stopped his misbehavior. Gillis could not regain his bedding while he was in the program, nor could he make the BMP stop once it was activated. Trammell never was denied all of his clothing. He was allowed one pair of undershorts-which, while probably not significant as to warmth, is significant as to dignity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
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.