Williams v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 756 · 1996
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Iko v. Shreve (2008), Danley v. Allen (2008)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Sandin v. Conner · Wilson v. Seiter · Whitley v. Albers
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acted with a sufficiently culpable state of mind,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prisoner ... demonstrate that officials applied force 'maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It not only outlaws excessive sentences but also protects inmates from inhumane treatment and conditions while imprisoned.”
4 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.