LeBaron v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2021
14 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C
Relies on Cutter et al. v. Wilkinson Director Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction · Baranowski v. Hart · Nelson v. Miller · Estate of Bennett v. Wainwright · Abdulhaseeb v. Calbone
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ppellant, in order to create a question of fact, was required to have provided more detail regarding the allegedly small meal portions and high sodium levels. In other words, his allegations are too conclusory to create a question of fact regarding these issues.”
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.