Campbell v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

53 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions

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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Liability ... requires, at a minimum, that the prison officials have realized there was imminent danger and have refused--consciously refused, knowingly refused--to do anything about it.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Willie T. Williams v. S. Winkler, Sued as Steve Winkler, B. Mitchell, Sued as Benjamin Mitchell, Jerry D. Gilmore · Seddens v. McGinnis

2. “harp on the [plaintiff's] crime, parade it lovingly before the jury in all its gruesome details, and thereby shift the focus of attention from the events at issue ... to the [plaintiff's] conviction in a prior case.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davis v. Marion · Walker v. Mulvihill

3. “"Rule 609 and the common law tradition out of which it evolved rest on the common-sense proposition that a person who has flouted society's most fundamental norms, as embodied in its felony statutes, is less likely than other members of society to be deterred from lying under oath in a trial by the solemnity of the oath, the (minuscule) danger of prosecution for perjury, or internalized ethical norms against lying. If so, this is something a jury should be permitted to take into account in evaluating a witness's believability."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 186 Ill. 2d 450 - People v. Atkinson · 276 Ill. App. 3d 201 - People v. Bramlett