Willey v. Kirkpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.3d 51 · 2015
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Farmer v. Brennan · Hudson v. Palmer · Bounds v. Smith
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim for violations of the Eighth Amendment requires (1) an 'objectively sufficiently serious ... denial of the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities' and (2) a 'sufficiently culpable state of mind' on the part of the responsible official.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We are unwilling to adopt as a matter of law the principle that it is not cruel and unusual punishment for prison officials knowingly to allow an area to remain filled with sewage and excrement for days on end.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Harling“there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
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.