Grimsley v. MacKay’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.3d 676 · 1996
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Foote v. Spiegel (1997), United States of America v. Ricardo Aguirre-Tello (2004)
16 federal appellate · 6 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. § 1961 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Farmer v. Brennan · Rhodes v. Chapman · Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co. · Helling v. McKinney
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A finding of fact is not clearly erroneous unless it is without factual support in the record, or if the appellate court, after reviewing all the evidence, is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“incarcerated under conditions posing a substantial risk of serious harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shauf v. Rios“'the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ricks v. Mackey Usdb
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.