Sampson v. King’s Empirical Analysis
693 F.2d 566 · 1982
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Howard v. King (1983), Jackson v. Cain (1989)
15 federal appellate · 1 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Rhodes v. Chapman · Rummel v. Estelle
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must not apply his own subjective view of what is cruel and unusual. Rather, his judgment `should be informed by objective factors to the maximum possible extent.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Austin v. Johnson“Qualified immunity can only exist where the defendant official is required to exercise some modicum of official discretion.”). 10 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.