Jackson v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
864 F.2d 1235 · 1989
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 4 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 222 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Hathaway v. Coughlin (1994), Woods v. Smith (1995)
54 federal appellate · 4 district · 11 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Estelle v. Gamble · Wolff v. McDonnell · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Turner v. Safley
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 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An opportunity should be provided [for] the prisoner to develop his case at least to the point where any merit it contains is brought to light ... Pro- se prisoner complaints must be read in a liberal fashion and should not be dismissed unless it appears beyond all doubt that the prisoner could prove no set of facts under which he would be entitled to relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f prison officials knowingly put [an inmate] on a work detail which they knew would significantly aggravate his serious physical ailment such a decision would constitute deliberate indifference to serious medical needs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“He was required to work in a barn shoveling unshucked corn that was over a year old and contaminated with rats’ nests, insects, and clods of white, sandy dust. He had to work unmasked while covered with corn dust in addition to pushing an iron wagon full of com approximately 80 feet ten times a day throughout the 47 day period. His nose bled, his hair fell out, and his face broke out in sores. He was also required to mow grass for two hours a day with a sub-standard push lawn mower. He claims he was the only member of the crew required to do the mowing. After roughly a month of this treatment Jackson claims Terry Thompson told him on June 20th that if he would stop writing letters to Col. Donald McNeil they would rescind this punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morris v. Powell
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.