Wood v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
836 F.3d 534 · 2016
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2025
4 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Connick v. Myers · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Village of Willowbrook v. Olech
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Texas’s use of compounded pento-barbital absent re-testing shortly before execution violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by creating a substantial risk of severe pain; (2) Texas’s refusal to disclose elements of its execution protocol violated Appellants’ First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights to be free from cruel and unusual punishment, due process, notice, an opportunity to be heard, and access to the courts; (3) voluntary re-testing of the pentobarbital that will be used to execute plaintiffs in another suit created a constitutional right to such re-testing for all prisoners; and (4) the lack of a requirement that Texas notify the Appellants of any changes to the drugs or to the lethal injection protocol that will be used to carry out their sentences impairs protection of their right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment and to due process under the Eighth and Fourteenth amendments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitaker v. Collier“However one kneads the protean language of equal protection jurisprudence, the inescapable reality is that these prisoners have not demonstrated that a failure to retest brings the risk of unnecessary pain forbidden by the Eighth Amendment.”). 22 . See Zink v. Lombardi, 783 F.3d 1089 (8th Cir. 2015) (en banc) (per curiam); Gissendaner, 779 F.3d at 1278-79, 1283 . 23 . Zink, 783 F.3d at 1101 . The Zink plaintiffs alleged, inter alia, that the compounded pen-tobarbital was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitaker v. Collier“The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is 'essentially a direction that all persons similarly situated should be treated alike.'”
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.