Stewart v. Love’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 43 · 1982
Citation profile
37 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Roberts v. City of Troy (1985), Martin v. White (1984)
37 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Thompson v. United States · Mackay v. Nesbett · Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. v. Early · Holt v. Sarver · United States ex rel. Miller v. Twomey
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n some circumstances, the failure to protect inmates from attack by fellow inmates may state a claim under either the 8th Amendment or the 14th Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere negligence on the part of prison officials is not sufficient to give rise to culpability under the eighth amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[G]enerally, an isolated or occasional attack is not sufficient to state a claim [under the eighth amendment].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swarts v. Johnson E
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.