Beck v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
842 F.2d 759 · 1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Kenneth Gaston v. Thomas a Coughlin III (2001), Cooper v. Sheriff, Lubbock County (1991)
8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Hudson v. Palmer · Bounds v. Smith · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Whitley v. Albers
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no evidence this harm [Cooper's lack of food] was caused maliciously or deliberately by responsible people,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the denial of access to religious activities ... may not appropriately be deemed frivolous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pedraza v. Meyer
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.