Clemmons v. Greggs’s Empirical Analysis
509 F.2d 1338 · 1975
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2015
10 federal appellate · 2 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 Monroe v. Pape · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Johnson v. Glick · Yi Au Lau v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Lee v. Texas
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when reasonably necessary ... to subdue recalcitrant prisoners.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stringer v. Rowe · Lock v. Jenkins
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.