Larry E. Davis v. Michael P. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 397 · 1987
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably New Burnham Prairie Homes, Inc. v. Village of Burnham (1990), United States v. Alvarez (1988)
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Diamond v. Charles · Johnson v. Glick · Lee v. Texas · Ponte v. Real
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the need for the application of force, the relationship between the need and the amount of force that was used, the extent of the injury inflicted, and whether force was applied in good faith effort to maintain or restore discipline or maliciously and sadistically for the purpose of causing harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sanders v. Heitzkey“alone is an insufficient basis on which to deny [the prisoner] his right to be heard effectively. [The prisoner] may have needed the continuance not only to gather witnesses, but to also determine who such witnesses would be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Lane“To prevail on an eighth amendment claim, a plaintiff bears the burden of proof on every element, including the burden of proving that the defendants acted without justification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Taylor
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.