Hudson v. McMillian’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 1014 · 1990
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2010
9 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Johnson v. Morel · Huguet v. Barnett · Wise v. Carlson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he conduct of McMillian and Woods qualified as clearly excessive and occasioned unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“directly and only from the use of force that was clearly excessive to the need”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hudson v. McMillian
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.