Black Spotted Horse v. Else’s Empirical Analysis
767 F.2d 516 · 1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably Munz v. Michael (1994), Burton v. Livingston (1986)
16 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 517
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Johnson v. Glick · Lee v. Texas · McNeil v. Director, Patuxent Institution · Burns v. Swenson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“caused a relatively minor injury to appellant’s leg, poked him in the back, and spoke in a belligerent tone fails to state a claim under the Eighth Amendment. The conduct claimed may amount to a battery, for which plaintiff would have an action under state law, but it is not a constitutional violation. The conduct charged is simply not sufficiently inhumane or barbarous as to amount to “cruel and unusual punishment.””
2 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.