Gibson v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
926 F.2d 532 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Vega-Rodriguez v. Puerto Rico Telephone Co. (1997), Bishop v. Hackel (2011)
11 federal appellate · 5 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Daniels v. Williams · Hewitt v. Helms
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]ersonal liability on any of the defendants. . . . must be based on the actions of that defendant in the situation that the defendant faced, and not based on any problems caused by the errors of others, either defendants or non-defendants.”
1 later decision 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.