Bryant v. Madigan’s Empirical Analysis
84 F.3d 246 · 1996
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Crawford v. Indiana Department of Corrections (1997), Snipes v. Detella (1996)
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12131 (§ 201 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on Lewis v. Faulkner · Williams v. Meese · Hale v. State of Arizona · Henthorn v. Department of Navy · Vanskike v. Peters
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he courts have labored mightily to prevent the transformation of the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishments clause into a medical malpractice statute for prisoners.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“of state prisons, but stated: 35 It is very far from clear that prisoners should be considered”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Judge-made exceptions to laws of general applicability are justified to avoid absurdity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.