Cotton v. Hutto’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.2d 453 · 1978
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Crowder v. Lash (1982), Herrera v. Valentine (1981)
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Rizzo v. Goode · Duchesne v. Sugarman · Hampton v. Holmesburg Prison Officials · Williams v. Vincent
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not alleged to have had any knowledge of, or connection with, this incident.”
1 later decision 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.