Williams v. Boles’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 181 · 1988
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Hudson v. McMillian (1992), Archie v. City of Racine (1988)
47 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams · Hudson v. Palmer · Engle v. Isaac
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] state is not free to inflict ... pains without cause just so long as it is careful to leave no marks.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment and any substantive rights ... under the Due Process Clause are coextensive,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“judgment convicting [a criminal] extinguish[es], for the duration of his sentence, his interest in privacy and personal mobility ... the applicable provision is the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the [Elighth [Almendment”
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.