Jackson v. Re Culbertson’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 699 · 1993
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States v. Walsh (1999), Flores v. City of Palacios (2004)
22 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Hudson v. McMillian · Shillingford v. Holmes · Johnson v. Morel · Valencia v. Wiggins
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because he suffered no injury, we find that the spraying of Jackson with the fire extinguisher was a de minimis use of physical force and was not repugnant to the conscience of mankind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Norman v. Taylor“Although[] Jackson need not show a significant injury, he must have suffered at least some injury.”
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.