Wright v. Goord’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.3d 255 · 2009
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 45 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 307 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Wilkins v. Gaddy (2010), Loeffler v. Staten Island University Hospital (2009)
13 federal appellate · 45 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 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3041 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 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 · Graham v. Connor · Neitzke v. Williams · Baker v. McCollan
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 307 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a motion for summary judgment is properly supported by documents or other evidentiary materials, the party opposing summary judgment may not merely rest on the allegations or denials of his pleading ....”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“required to resolve all ambiguities and draw all permissible factual inferences in favor of the party against whom summary judgment is sought.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“turns on 'whether force was applied in a good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Staples v. Gerry · Segrain v. Duffy
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.