Chapman v. Pickett’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 22 · 1978
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 1996 · most notably Moore v. Marketplace Restaurant, Inc. (1985), Crowder v. Lash (1982)
29 federal appellate ·
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. § 4161 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Butz v. Economou · Wood v. Strickland · Rizzo v. Goode
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the first part of the Wood v. Strickland rule, the immunity defense would be unavailing to (the prison officials) if the constitutional right allegedly infringed by them was clearly established at the time of their challenged conduct, if they knew or should have known of that right and if they knew or should have known that their conduct violated the constitutional norm. 41”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“failing to perform work as instructed by supervisor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At least as early as 1910, the Supreme Court declared it to be 'a precept of justice' that punishment for crime must be proportioned to the offense, lest it be found to be cruel and unusual. Weems v. United States, 217 U.S. 349 , 367, 30 S.Ct. 544, 549, 54 L.Ed. 793 (1910). This being so, the question becomes whether defendants 'knew or should have known' that their confinement of Chapman to segregation was or became grossly disproportionate to the offense with which he had been charged. But this question almost answers itself, for if a point in time can be determined when the punishment became so seriously disproportionate as to violate the Eighth Amendment, at that same point defendants 'should have known' that the punishment was grossly excessive. Thus, ... the defense of qualified official immunity is not available for damages arising out of Chapman's Eighth Amendment claim.”
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.