Freeman v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
503 F.2d 1016 · 1974
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably Herrera v. Valentine (1981), Goodman v. Parwatikar (1978)
21 federal appellate · 2 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 Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Jenkins v. McKeithen · WILWORDING Et Al. v. SWENSON, WARDEN · Cataldo v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the claimed inadequacy of treatment must be predicated on obvious neglect or intentional misconduct . and must be so heinous as to constitute cruel and unusual punishment as that term is used in the Eighth Amendment or so endanger the prison’s physical well-being that his Fourteenth Amendment right to life is violated.” [citations omitted]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butler v. Best
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.