George v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
633 F.2d 413 · 1980
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2002 · most notably Hudson v. McMillian (1992), Franklin v. Aycock (1986)
16 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Johnson v. Glick · Lee v. Texas · Sheffey v. Greer · George v. Evans
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n isolated assault by an individual guard on an inmate is not, within the meaning of the eighth amendment, punishment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Punishment is an action by prison guards or a condition of confinement that is applied to an inmate for a penal or disciplinary purpose and is at least apparently authorized or acquiesced in by high prison officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ort v. White“Whether or not an eighth amendment violation can be established, the use of undue force by a prison guard is actionable as a deprivation of fourteenth amendment due process rights.”
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.