McDowell v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
990 F.2d 433 · 1993
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Lockridge v. Board of Trustees (2003), Graves v. United States (1997)
18 federal appellate · 7 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 Daniels v. Williams · Hudson v. Palmer · Meachum v. Fano · Martin v. Sargent · Burton v. Livingston
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must allege and show that the supervisor personally participated in or had direct responsibility for the alleged violations”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the supervisor actually knew of, and was deliberately indifferent to or tacitly authorized, the unconstitutional acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[V]erbal threats and name calling usually are not actionable under § 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Requena v. Roberts
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.