Haynes v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Kentucky v. Graham · Daniels v. Williams · Whitley v. Albers
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]eating a prisoner to near death and leaving him to die violates the Eighth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haynes v. Marshall“he began to act out, doing injury to himself and disrupting the activities of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haynes v. Marshall
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.