Stokes v. Delcambre’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 1120 · 1983
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Moore v. Marketplace Restaurant, Inc. (1985), Hare v. City of Corinth, Miss. (1994)
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 · Smith v. Wade · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman · Jones v. Diamond
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the jury could have concluded that the jail was administered in a manner virtually indifferent to the safety of prisoners”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“dwell on the difference in rights enjoyed by pre-trial detainees and convicted persons,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'is not improper when urged on the issue of ultimate liability”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Louder · Shultz v. Rice
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.