Crawford v. Cuomo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “conduct that might not have been seen to rise to the severity of an Eighth Amendment violation 18 years ago may now violate community standards of decency”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Rafferty v. Trumbull Cnty. · Clark v. Hanley

2. “[TJhe prisoner must allege that the defendant acted with a subjectively ‘sufficiently culpable state of mind.’”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Colon v. Annucci · 173 Conn. App. 779 - Townsend v. Hardy

3. “prison officials looking for contraband may subject inmates to reasonable strip searches and cavity searches ... Indeed prison security and safety may require frequent searches of an intensely personal nature — and not every such search is properly the subject of a lawsuit. Searches that do not uncover contraband may be no less penologically justified than those that do. And even an officer who is meticulous in conducting a search does not violate an inmate’s constitutional rights as long as the officer had no intention of humiliating the inmate or deriving sexual arousal or gratification from the contact. But a search may not be undertaken maliciously or for the purposes of sexually abusing an inmate.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ricks v. Shover · Perez v. Ponte