Pressly v. Hutto’s Empirical Analysis
816 F.2d 977 · 1987
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably Farmer v. Brennan (1994), Berry v. City of Muskogee (1990)
36 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Whitley v. Albers · Davidson v. Cannon · Davis v. Zahradnick
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“protected against physical harm at the hands of fellow inmates resulting from the deliberate or callous indifference of prison officials to specific known risks of such harm”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]onstitutional claims of convicted prison inmates that they have suffered physical harm at the hands either of prison officials or of fellow-inmates against whom prison officials failed to provide protection, are most appropriately assessed under the eighth amendment....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Koon v. Pack · Ruefly v. Landon“where physical force [is] directly applied by prison officials to maintain security or discipline”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stubbs v. Dudley
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.