Cupit v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.2d 82 · 1987
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Hare v. City of Corinth, Miss. (1994), Rhyne v. Henderson County (1992)
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Jones v. Diamond · Ulmer v. Chancellor
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably related to a legitimate governmental objective”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliberate indifference to serious medical needs.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment accords pretrial detainees rights not enjoyed by convicted inmates under the eighth amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.”
3 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.