Thomas v. Booker’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 299 · 1986
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably Toussaint v. McCarthy (1986), Johnson-El v. Schoemehl (1989)
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2106 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Bell v. Wolfish · Parratt v. Taylor · Kentucky v. Graham · Daniels v. Williams
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The plain error exception is narrow and is confined to the exceptional case in which error has affected seriously the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'only where the evidence points all one way and is susceptible of no reasonable inferences sustaining the position of the nonmoving party.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“were deliberately indifferent to his constitutional rights, either because they actually intended to deprive him of some right, or because they acted with reckless disregard of his right to be free from attacks by other inmates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnsom v. Co Beaver
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.