May v. Enomoto’s Empirical Analysis
633 F.2d 164 · 1980
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Hardin v. Straub (1989), Barren v. Harrington (1998)
41 federal appellate · 7 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · 16 Cal. 3d 834 - Williams v. Horvath · Williams v. Vincent · Russell M. Smith v. John J. Cremins, Jr., John F. Mahon, Jr.
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at the time the cause of action accrued ... [the injured party was] imprisoned on a criminal charge, or in execution under the sentence of a criminal court for a term less than life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliberate indifference to serious medical needs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hernandez v. Denton
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.