No. 82-6552’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2019
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Furman v. Georgia · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Wood v. Strickland · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the need for the application of the force; ... the relationship between the need for the force and the amount of force used; ... [and] the extent of injury inflicted.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Deborah Shaw, Administratrix of the Estate of Sidney Bowen, Deceased Nancy Bowen, Individually, and as Guardian Ad Litem for Kimberly Yvonne Bowen and Lee Frederick Bowen, the Minor Children of Sidney Bowen v. C.I. Stroud, Individually, and Alfred E. Morris, J.M. Smith J.A. McVicker J.H. Parks, in Their Individual Capacities, Deborah Shaw, Administratrix of the Estate of Sidney Bowen, Deceased Nancy Bowen, Individually, and as Guardian Ad Litem for Kimberly Yvonne Bowen and Lee Frederick Bowen, the Minor Children of Sidney Bowen v. Alfred E. Morris C.I. Stroud, J.M. Smith, in Their Individual Capacities, and J.A. McVicker J.H. Parks, in Their Individual Capacities, Deborah Shaw, Administratrix of the Estate of Sidney Bowen, Deceased Nancy Bowen, Individually, and as Guardian Ad Litem for Kimberly Yvonne Bowen and Lee Frederick Bowen, the Minor Children of Sidney Bowen v. C.I. Stroud Alfred E. Morris J.M. Smith, in Their Individual Capacities, Deborah Shaw, Administratrix of the Estate of Sidney Bowen, Deceased Nancy Bowen, Individually, and as Guardian Ad Litem for Kimberly Yvonne Bowen and Lee Frederick Bowen, the Minor Children of Sidney Bowen v. C.I. Stroud, Individually · Shaw v. Stroud“[U]se of the substance in small amounts may be a necessary prison technique if a prisoner refuses after adequate warning to move from a cell or upon other provocation presenting a reasonable possibility that slight force will be required. In these circumstances the substance may be a legitimate means for preventing small disturbances from becoming dangerous to other inmates or the prison personnel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“totality of the circumstances, including the provocation, the amount of gas used, and the purposes for which the gas is used [to] determin[e] the validity of the use of tear gas in the prison environment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Benjamin
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.