Davis v. Forrest’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.2d 257 · 1985
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Johnson v. Glick · Lee v. Texas · Shillingford v. Holmes · Hall v. Tawney · Putman v. Gerloff
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.
“'realms of personal privacy and bodily security through means so brutal, demeaning, and harmful as to literally shock the conscience,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“language is not required by Davis. We agree. Instruction thirteen properly instructed the jury that it must consider the need for the application of force by Crews, the relationship between the need and the amount of force used by Crews, the extent of injury inflicted upon Jackson by Crews, and whether any force applied by Crews was applied in good faith or maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm to Jackson. Record at 480. 14 Davis held that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Crews
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.