Wood v. Beauclair’s Empirical Analysis
692 F.3d 1041 · 2012
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Chavarriaga v. New Jersey Department of Corrections (2015), Wood v. Yordy (2014)
5 federal appellate · 3 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 Farmer v. Brennan · Gregg v. Georgia · Whitley v. Albers · Hudson v. McMillian · Smith v. First Union National Bank
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he power dynamics between prisoners and guards make it difficult to discern consent from coercion,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a prisoner alleges sexual abuse by a prison guard ... the prisoner is entitled to a [rebuttable] presumption that the conduct was not consensual.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the coercive nature of sexual relations in the prison environment,”
2 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.