Ray v. Mabry’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.2d 881 · 1977
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Howard v. King (1983), Martin v. Sargent (1985)
23 federal appellate · 2 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))
Relies on Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Jackson v. Bishop · Holt v. Sarver · Holt v. Sarver · Finney v. Hutto
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[F]or prison officials knowingly to compel convicts to perform physical labor which is beyond their strength, or which constitutes a danger to their lives or health, or which is unduly painful constitutes an infliction of cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth Amendment....'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“excessive hours [90 to 120 hours per week], from working on Sundays, and from being compelled to perform duties beyond his physical capabilities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howard v. King“Id. (quoting Talley v. Stephens, 247 F.Supp. 683, 687 (E.D.Ark.1965) ). Further,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Clinton
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.