Dailey v. Byrnes’s Empirical Analysis
605 F.2d 858 · 1979
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1991
7 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 28 U.S.C. § 753
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Bishop v. Wood · Coppedge v. United States · Johnson v. Glick
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more likely to be not an effort to restore order but instead either a motive for 'maliciously' striking the [inmate] 'for the purpose of causing harm' or else summary, informal, unofficial and unsanctioned corporal punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ort v. White
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.