Lockett v. Suardini’s Empirical Analysis
526 F.3d 866 · 2008
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Fritz v. Charter Township of Com-Stock (2010), Bridges v. Gilbert (2009)
8 federal appellate ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Farmer v. Brennan · Heck v. Humphrey · Gregg v. Georgia
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the plaintiff engaged in protected conduct; (2) an adverse action was taken against the plaintiff that would deter a person of ordinary firmness from continuing to engage in that conduct; and (3) there is a causal connection between elements one and two-that is, the adverse action was motivated at least in part by the plaintiffs protected conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not rise to a level that is sufficient to sustain [an] Eighth Amendment claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matthews v. Copeland
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.