Howard v. Adkison’s Empirical Analysis
887 F.2d 134 · 1989
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Baker v. Monroe Township (1995), Joe McBride v. Russell Deer Sonny Briggs (2001)
55 federal appellate · 12 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Butz v. Economou · Rhodes v. Chapman · Davis v. Scherer · Hutto v. Finney
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proof of actual knowledge of constitutional violations is not, however, an absolute prerequisite for imposing supervisory liability.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'when their corrective inaction amounts to 'deliberate indifference' to or 'tacit authorization' of the violative practices.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inmates are entitled to reasonably adequate sanitation, personal hygiene, and laundry privileges, particularly over a lengthy course of time”
3 later decisions 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.