Tucker v. Randall’s Empirical Analysis
948 F.2d 388 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Murphy v. Walker (1995), Donald v. Cook County Sheriff's Department (1996)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Domby v. United States · Dick v. Kemp · Maclin v. Freake · Rodgers v. Lincoln Towing Service, Inc.
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.
“unable to investigate crucial facts because he [was] incarcerated in a facility different from that in which the alleged conduct took place”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Eli“unreasonable restrictions on prisoner's telephone access may also violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dietzen v. Mork P
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.