Hoptowit v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
682 F.2d 1237 · 1982
Citation profile
259 federal appellate · 48 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 529 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Wilson v. Seiter (1991), McLinn F/v Fjord Johnson F/v Supersonic Churchill v. F/v Fjord F/v Supersonic F/v Supersonic (1984)
259 federal appellate · 48 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Gregg v. Georgia
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 529 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“totally without penological justification.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hobson v. Purvis · Murray v. Bowlin“adequate food, clothing, shelter, sanitation, medical care, and personal safety.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] number of conditions, each of which satisfy Eighth Amendment requirements, cannot in combination amount to an Eighth Amendment violation.”
12 later decisions 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.