Morin v. Caire’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 116 · 1996
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States Thompson v. Columbia/hca Healthcare Corporation (1997), Jenkins v. Medford (1997)
32 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish · Albright v. Oliver · Ingraham v. Wright · Griffin v. United States
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the interest of judicial economy, this court may exercise its discretion to consider under pendent appellate jurisdiction claims that are closely related to this [denial of summary judgment] issue properly before us.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ordinarily, this court does not have jurisdiction over the denial of a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss for no cause of action, because such an order is interlocutory in nature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he protections of the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment are limited in scope to convicted prisoners and do not apply to pretrial detainees”
1 later decision 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.