Hodges v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis
712 F.2d 34 · 1983
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Hudson v. Palmer (1984), Connie Robison v. Susan R. Via and Harold Harrison (1987)
20 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 Bell v. Wolfish · Price v. Johnston · Johnson v. Glick · Wright v. McMann · Bono v. Saxbe
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether the constitutional line has been crossed, a court must look to such factors as the need for the application of force, the relationship between the need and the amount of force that was used, the extent of injury inflicted, and whether force was applied in a good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The second search took place shortly after the first, and Hodges had been under continuous escort. Under these circumstances it seems clear that there was no possibility that Hodges could have obtained and concealed contraband. Thus the second search appears to have been unnecessary. We therefore cannot say that Hodges has failed to state a constitutional claim.”); Bono v. Saxbe, 620 F.2d 609 , 617 (7th Cir. 1980) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parkell v. Danberg“the Fourth Amendment still requires that searches-even those in the prison context-be reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rasheen v. Adner
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.