Gilliard v. Oswald’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.2d 456 · 1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2013
8 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Ex Parte: Edward T Young
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A hypothetical, but not fanciful, case might well have arisen had the Superintendent prematurely ended his investigation and an inmate been seriously injured as a result: The injured inmate could well have argued liability for failure to do the very acts which the Superintendent carried out here.” Id. at 459 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the actual situation which confronted the man charged with the responsibility of the safety of some 1600 inmates,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilliard v. Oswald“look through the Superintendent's eyes at what he saw,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilliard v. Oswald
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.