Roland v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
856 F.2d 764 · 1988
Citation profile
36 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Farmer v. Brennan (1994), United States v. Lara (1990)
36 federal appellate ·
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. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Thomas v. Arn · Whitley v. Albers · United States v. Raddatz · Patterson v. United States
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a judge of the court shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he legal standard applicable to determining whether a violation of the Eighth Amendment occurred in the context of an assault upon an inmate is whether the defendant['s] conduct amounted to a 'deliberate indifference' to a risk of injury to [the] plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hickerson v. Koepp“because of investigative reports linking them to an ongoing homosexual pressure gang ... and because of hearsay evidence that [they] were pressing other inmates in the block for sex.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. Overberg
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.