Green v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Hughes v. Rowe · Santoni v. United States · Patsy v. Florida International University · Tarlton v. Clark · Theriault v. Silber
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the Teutonic Gods tired of Loki’s troublemaking, they chained him to the rocks with a poisonous snake suspended above him, dripping poison on Loki.... That case arose prior to the Eighth Amendment.”
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.