Lopez v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
914 F.2d 486 · 1990
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Wilson v. Seiter (1991), Shaw v. Stroud (1994)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 1291 · 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 · Bell v. Wolfish · Malley v. Briggs
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Assuming that the inmates have alleged a violation of a clearly established constitutional right of access to the courts, no record evidence establishes that any of the named defendants were personally involved with these incidents of alleged constitutional deprivations. Because liability under § 1983 cannot be premised on re-spondeat superior, the prison officials are entitled to summary judgment on this claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Running a prison is an inordinately difficult undertaking that requires expertise, planning, and the commitment of resources, all of which are peculiarly within the province of the legislative and executive branches of government. Prison administration is, moreover, a task that has been committed to the responsibility of those branches, and separation of powers concerns counsel a policy of judicial restraint.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nichols v. Nix · Frink v. Arnold“Prison conditions are unconstitutional if they constitute an 'unnecessary and wanton' infliction of pain and are 'totally without penological justification.' ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. Clarke · Young v. Quinlan
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.