Grissom v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
902 F.3d 1162 · 2018
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Kansas District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Farmer v. Brennan · Pearson v. Callahan · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Sandin v. Conner
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“solitary confinement, even over relatively short periods, renders prisoners physically sick and mentally ill. ... These harms, which are persistent and may become permanent, become more severe the longer a person is exposed to solitary confinement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Porter v. Clarke“[a]t base, then, the question is whether the extreme nature of [the prisoner's] confinement is justified by legitimate penological interests”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Porter v. Clarke“[a]n unpublished opinion, ... even if the facts were closer, provides little support for the notion that the law is clearly established”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cummings v. Dean
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.