McKnight v. Rees’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.3d 417 · 1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018
3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Imbler v. Pachtman · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... as employees of a private corporation seeking to maximize profits, correctional officers act, at least in part, out of a desire to maintain the profitability of a corporation for whom they labor, thereby insuring their own job security .... With respect to cutting corners on constitutional guarantees, one commentator has explained that: “entrepreneurial jailers benefit directly, in the form of increased profits, from every dime not spent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to ensure that talented candidates'' are”
1 later decision 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.