Jackson v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
846 F.2d 811 · 1988
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably McDonald's Corporation v. Robertson (1998), United States v. Kidder (1989)
16 federal appellate · 10 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goss v. Lopez · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“leave[s] the balancing between speed and practicality versus accuracy and fairness to the sound discretion of the district court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the Constitution does require that prisoners be provided with a certain minimum level of treatment, it does not guarantee to a prisoner the treatment of his choice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'there is little dispute as to raw facts but much as to the inferences to be drawn from them.'”
1 later decision 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.