Hines v. Boothe’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 623 · 1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2006 · most notably Dudley v. Stubbs (1989), McHenry v. Chadwick (1990)
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Daniels v. Williams · Paul v. Davis · Baker v. McCollan · Goss v. Lopez
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a mere isolated incident of negligence ... does not rise to the level of a constitutional violation actionable under Sec. 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pink v. Lester“[n]egligence does not state a claim under section 1983,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pink v. Lester
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.