Hunt v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
974 F.2d 734 · 1992
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Chad J. Alvarado v. Jon E. Litscher, Secretary, Jane Gamble, B. McCreedy (2001), Atkinson v. Taylor (2003)
17 federal appellate · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Wilson v. Seiter · Rhodes v. Chapman · Doerr v. Doerr · Fussell v. Price
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Medical consequences of tobacco smoke do not differ from other medical problems. Prisoners allergic to the components of tobacco smoke, or who can attribute their serious medical conditions to smoke, are entitled to appropriate medical treatment, which may include removal from places where smoke hovers”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Talal v. White · Atkinson v. Taylor“by forcing a prisoner with a serious medical need for a smoke-free environment to share his cell with an inmate who smokes”
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.