United States of America Ex Rel. Tyrone B. Larkins v. Russell G. Oswald, Commissioner of Corrections of New York State’s Empirical Analysis
510 F.2d 583 · 1975
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably Carey v. Piphus (1978), Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex (1979)
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. · Brewer v. United States · Robins 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Particularly in a civil rights case the amount of damages is a question for the jury's determination.”
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.