Bellamy v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
729 F.2d 416 · 1984
Citation profile
144 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 345 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Doe v. Taylor Independent School District (1994), Copeland v. Machulis (1995)
144 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Rhodes v. Chapman · Alabama v. Pugh · Graham v. Hodges · Hays v. Jefferson County
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 345 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“encouraged the specific incident of misconduct or in some other way directly participated in it.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prison inmates have no absolute constitutional right to visitation”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether without weighing the credibility of the witnesses or considering the weight of the evidence, there is substantial evidence from which the jury could find in favor of the party against whom the motion is made.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.