Stenzel v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
916 F.2d 423 · 1990
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Hudson v. McMillian (1992), Samuel Lemaire v. Manfred Maass, Superintendent, Samuel Lemaire v. Manfred Maass, Superintendent (1993)
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Hewitt v. Helms · Whitley v. Albers · Johnson v. Glick · Lee v. Texas
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the need for force; the correlation between the need for force and the amount of force used; the extent of the injury; “the threat to the safety of staff and inmates, as reasonably perceived by the responsible officials on the basis of the facts known to them”; and any attempt to “temper the severity” of the response.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inflicted unnecessary and wanton pain and suffering”
2 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.