Bruce v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 850 · 1976
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Dewey Dds v. Louisiana State Board of Dentistry (1980), Slakan v. Porter (1984)
51 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an unjustified beating at the hands of prison officials gives rise to a section 1983 action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dailey v. Byrnes
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.