Levoy v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
788 F.2d 1437 · 1986
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Dunn v. White (1989), Cochran v. Morris (1996)
11 federal appellate · 8 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Hudson v. Palmer · Olim v. Wakinekona · Mary Beth v. City of Chicago Tikalsky · Blackburn v. Snow
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ourts must consider the scope of the particular intrusion, the manner in which it is conducted, the justification for initiating it, and the place in which it is conducted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a body cavity search without any justification whatsoever.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in an abusive fashion or with unnecessary force,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.