Redding v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2026
8 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 City of Sand Springs v. Department of Public Welfare · Nguyen v. State · Neal v. Donahue · Medina v. State · Nichols v. Department of Corrections
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is obvious that the purpose and intent of § 155([25]) is to protect the state and political subdivisions from tort liability for loss resulting from the functions of the officers and employees performed in the operation of a penal institution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the myriad of actions involved in the day to day operation of a prison ....”
1 later decision 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.