Brown v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 1187 · 1987
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Hudson v. McMillian (1992), Miller v. Leathers (1990)
21 federal appellate ·
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 Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Daniels v. Williams · Rochin v. People of California · Whitley v. Albers
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.
“'evidence viewed in the light most favorable to him [goes] beyond a mere dispute over the reasonableness of the force used and ... support[s] a reliable inference of the wantonness in the infliction of pain.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Due Process Clause affords [the Plaintiff] no greater protection than does the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause.”
2 later decisions 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.