Goka v. Bobbitt’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 646 · 1988
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Farmer v. Brennan (1994), Berry v. City of Muskogee (1990)
48 federal appellate · 2 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Daniels v. Williams · Hudson v. Palmer · Whitley v. Albers · Ingraham v. Wright
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Negligence, or even gross negligence, on the part of a prison official will not establish a constitutional violation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Murdock v. Fields · Poole v. Yeazel“that to the best of the signer’s knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry it is well grounded in fact ... warranted by existing law ... [and] not interposed for any improper purpose ____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admission on file, together with the affidavits, if any, which demonstrate the absence of a genuine issue of material fact,”
2 later decisions 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.