Ouzts v. Cummins’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 1276 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Redman v. County of San Diego (1991), Camberos v. Branstad (1995)
18 federal appellate · 4 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 Davidson v. Cannon · Johnson v. Glick · Lee v. Texas · Martin v. Sargent · Harris v. City of Pagedale
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“general responsibility for supervising the operations of a prison is insufficient to establish personal involvement.”
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.