Davenport v. DeRobertis’s Empirical Analysis
844 F.2d 1310 · 1988
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Perkins v. Kansas Department of Corrections (1999), In the Matter of Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Incorporated (1995)
68 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Gregg v. Georgia · Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Rhodes v. Chapman
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he record shows, what anyway seems pretty obvious, that isolating a human being from other human beings year after year or even month after month can cause substantial psychological damage . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a failure to provide inmates (confined for more than a very short period ...) with the opportunity for at least five hours a week of exercise outside the cell raises serious constitutional questions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he deprivation merely of cultural amenities is not cruel and unusual punishment.”
2 later decisions 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.