Leonardo v. Moran’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 397 · 1979
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Cortes-Quinones v. Jimenez-Nettleship (1988), Dewey v. University of New Hampshire (1982)
22 federal appellate · 13 district ·
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 Estelle v. Gamble · Gregg v. Georgia · Carey v. Piphus · Hutto v. Finney · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to protect prisoners from violence at the hands of other prisoners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Street v. Fair“need not wait until he is actually assaulted to obtain relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Street v. Fair“unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain”
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.