Roberts v. Spalding’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 867 · 1986
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Toussaint v. McCarthy (1986), Leer v. Murphy (1988)
33 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Estelle v. Gamble · Dandridge v. Williams · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hewitt v. Helms
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unreasonable, frivolous, meritless or vexatious,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A prison inmate has no independent constitutional right to outside medical care”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Frost v. Lutz · Randle v. Mesrobian“The creation of procedural guidelines to channel the decision-making of prison officials is, in the view of many experts in the field, a salutory development. It would be ironic to hold that when a state embarks on such desirable experimentation it thereby opens the door to scrutiny by the federal court, while states that choose not to adopt such procedural provisions entirely avoid the strictures of the Due Process Clause. The adoption of such procedural guidelines, without more, suggests that it is these restrictions alone, and not those federal courts might also impose under the Fourteenth Amendment, that the state chose to require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.