Miller v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 757 · 1977
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Doe v. Taylor Independent School District (1994), Baskin v. Parker (1979)
14 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Paul v. Davis · Screws v. United States · Lehman Brothers v. Schein · Gates v. Collier
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once federal constitutional violations were established, as they were here, the basic question in the federal claim was the extent of Wainwright's duty under federal law; in the state claim, his duty under the Florida statute. These two questions are similar.... [and] a parallel state court trial [would] have been duplicative....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bush v. Viterna“when a state official's violation of state law causes the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment, a federal cause of action arises under Sec. 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bush v. Viterna“The fact that Wainwright shares responsibility for the operation of the jail with county officials does not relieve him of liability....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bush v. Viterna
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.