McKinnon v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
568 F.2d 930 · 1977
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 17 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 285 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Colon v. Coughlin (1995), Scotto v. Almenas (1998)
44 federal appellate · 17 district · 6 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Wolff v. McDonnell · Gault · Wood v. Strickland · Meachum v. Fano
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 285 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“personal involvement of defendants in alleged constitutional deprivations is a prerequisite to an award of damages under Sec. 1983.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`inform[ ] the inmate of what he allegedly has done so that he can prepare a defense, if he chooses, to the specific charges set forth'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that [defendant Commissioner] was in a high position of authority is an insufficient basis for the imposition of personal liability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.