Shrader v. White’s Empirical Analysis
761 F.2d 975 · 1985
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Duckworth v. Franzen (1985), Goka v. Bobbitt (1988)
41 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Gregg v. Georgia · Rhodes v. Chapman
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“food was prepared or served under 'conditions which present an immediate danger to the health and well-being of the inmates who consume it.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'accord wide latitude to findings of the trial court with respect to ... facts and to inferences therefrom.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Clark v. Clark · Clark v. Clark“[o]ne key to understanding when the risk of violence reaches constitutional dimensions is its effect on the inmate population_ In this context, it is not necessary that an inmate establish that he has been the subject of an actual attack, but he must establish that he lives in reasonable fear of assaults from other inmates ... and that the fear results in significant mental pain....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Seiter
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.