Palermo v. Rorex’s Empirical Analysis
806 F.2d 1266 · 1987
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Rollins v. Marsh (1991), Johnson v. City of Dallas (1995)
13 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Ingraham v. Wright · Davis v. Passman · Tenney v. Brandhove
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment applies only in criminal actions, following a conviction.”
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.