Gullatte v. Potts’s Empirical Analysis
654 F.2d 1007 · 1981
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Moore v. Marketplace Restaurant, Inc. (1985), Roberts v. City of Troy (1985)
20 federal appellate · 5 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Wood v. Strickland · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Procunier v. Navarette · Angrist v. United States
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen prison officials have failed to control or separate prisoners who endanger the physical safety of other prisoners and the level of violence becomes so high ... it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Riley v. Jeffes · Young v. Quinlan“and was murdered after he was transferred to the general prison population of a maximum security unit. His wife brought suit and the former Fifth Circuit remanded the action to the district court for determination of whether the warden knew or should have known of the danger”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harmon v. Berry“This does not mean that the constitutional rights of inmates are violated every time a prisoner is injured.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hopkins v. Britton
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.