Ferranti v. Moran’s Empirical Analysis
618 F.2d 888 · 1980
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 34 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Steven M. Desrosiers v. John J. Moran (1991), Cok v. Cosentino (1989)
34 federal appellate · 34 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 Conley v. Gibson · Estelle v. Gamble · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]uch a[s] [a] dispute with an exercise of professional judgment may present a colorable claim for negligence, but falls short of alleges a constitutional violation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] retaliatory state of mind typically is not susceptible to proof by direct evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an inference of retaliation is warranted from the chronology of the events recited and from the allegation that appellant's ... suit complains of prison conditions and is directed at prison officials”
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.