Mills v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
656 F.2d 337 · 1981
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Davidson v. O'Lone (1984), Coon v. Ledbetter (1986)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Parratt v. Taylor · Paul v. Davis
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a negligent action resulting in personal injury does not become a constitutional violation merely because the tortfeasor is a state or local police officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Beebe
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.