Gillespie v. Crawford’s Empirical Analysis
833 F.2d 47 · 1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013
9 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Gregg v. Georgia · Daniels v. Williams · Whitley v. Albers
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unlike 'conduct that does not purport to be punishment at all' as was involved in Gamble and Whitley, the Court has not made intent an element of a cause of action alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct that does not purport to be punishment at all,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Seiter
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.