Johnston v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 1254 · 1986
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Hare v. City of Corinth, Miss. (1994), Jacquez v. Procunier (1986)
22 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Estelle v. Gamble · Monroe v. Pape · Daniels v. Williams · 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consider whether the new facts (1) would probably change the outcome; (2) could have been discovered earlier with due diligence; and (3) are merely cumulative or impeaching.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he protections of the Due Process Clause, whether procedural or substantive, are just not triggered by lack of due care by prison officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain”
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.