Gaut v. Sunn’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 923 · 1987
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Robinson v. Solano County (2002), Corales v. Bennett (2009)
37 federal appellate · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bounds v. Smith · Johnson v. Glick · North Star International v. Arizona Corp. Commission · Douglas Gregory v. John J. Thompson · Rutherford v. City of Berkeley
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]rison beatings which 'shock the conscience' are actionable under section 1983”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“threat to do an act prohibited by the Constitution is [not the] equivalent to doing the act itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether force was applied in a good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Timko
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.