Graham v. Broglin’s Empirical Analysis
922 F.2d 379 · 1991
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Wilkinson Director Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction et al. v. Dotson et al. (2005), DeWalt v. Carter (2000)
66 federal appellate · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Preiser v. Rodriguez · Jones v. Cunningham · Maleng v. Cook · Andrews v. United States · United States v. Jordan
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a quantum change in the level of custody”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all he has done is mislabel his suit, and he should be given leave to plead over or the mislabeling should simply be ignored”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely the conditions of his confinement his proper remedy is under civil rights law”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bunn v. Conley · Alejo v. Heller
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.