Ivey v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
832 F.2d 950 · 1987
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Miller v. Currie (1995), DeWalt v. Carter (2000)
78 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 · Thomas v. Arn · Solem v. Helm · Rhodes v. Chapman · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and required action by the reviewing court”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless that party objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter objected to and the grounds of the objection.”
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.