Cornell v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
69 F.3d 1383 · 1995
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999), Bruce v. Ylst (2003)
20 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Sandin v. Conner · Pell v. Procunier · Smith v. Wade
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.
“though certainly not to be commended, did not rise to a level of egregiousness sufficient to justify the imposition of punitive damages”
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.