Pearson v. Welborn’s Empirical Analysis
471 F.3d 732 · 2006
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Bridges v. Gilbert (2009), Fox v. Hayes (2010)
19 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez · Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e decline to hold that legitimate complaints lose their protected status simply because they are spoken.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e will not reweigh the evidence, or substitute our credibility assessments for that of the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At trial, Pearson testified that he and other inmates complained about aspects of the J-pod program. Pearson denounced the lack of yard time (as a named plaintiff in a previous suit over a lack of yard time, Pearson believed he was legally guaranteed at least one hour a week outdoors). He also complained about the fact that inmates were shackled to one another around a small table for group therapy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watkins v. Kasper
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.