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← 659 FSUPP2D 577 - Perry v. Stephens

Perry v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
November 2018
most recently cited

Relationships

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Estelle v. Gamble · Wilson v. Seiter

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The subjective element requires that the prison official involved possess a "wanton”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “whether force was applied in a good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “state of mind when he or she engaged in the alleged conduct.”
    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.