Lewis v. O'Grady’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 1366 · 1988
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Patrick v. Jasper County (1990), Guzman-Rivera v. Rivera-Cruz (1994)
15 federal appellate · 6 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. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish · Gunning v. Cooley · Bradley v. J. F. Batte & Sons of Richmond, Inc.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What is a reasonable time for detaining a prisoner in custody is a question best left open for juries to answer based on the facts presented in each case.... It is for a jury to determine whether the 11 hours it took the sheriff to discharge Lewis was reasonable.”
4 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.