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Hudson v. McMillian’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

4,643
cited by 4,643 later decisions
16
cited 16 times by the Supreme Court
16
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

1,160 federal appellate · 436 district · 78 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 4,643 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Farmer v. Brennan (1994), Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey (1996)

1,160 federal appellate · 436 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 16 states

1.6k01992200020102020decided

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.

Appellate journey

reviewedHudson v. McMillian (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Parratt v. Taylor · Gregg v. Georgia

Cited together with Whitley v. Albers · Farmer v. Brennan · Estelle v. Gamble · Wilson v. Seiter · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, 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 4,643 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “society does not expect that prisoners will have unqualified access to health care”
    109 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. McGinty v. Rue · Lucien v. Jones
  2. “whether force was applied in a good-faith effort to maintain or restore discipline, or maliciously and sadistically to cause harm.”
    89 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle · McGinty v. Rue
  3. “any efforts made to temper the severity of a forceful response.”
    63 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Orlando T. Melendez v. Michael J. Cunningham, Warden, Etc. · Jordan v. Gardner

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.