Townsend v. Fuchs’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.3d 765 · 2008
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Pyles v. Fahim (2014), Mays v. Springborn (2009)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Farmer v. Brennan · Sandin v. Conner · Wilson v. Seiter
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“being placed in segregation is too trivial an incremental deprivation of a convicted prisoner's liberty to trigger the duty of due process”) (2 days); Lekas v. Briley, 405 F.3d 602 , 612 (7th Cir.2005) (analyzing conditions of confinement, but also noting that prisoner's segregation”
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.