Lee v. Armontrout’s Empirical Analysis
991 F.2d 487 · 1993
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Bialas v. Greyhound Lines, Inc. (1995), Kinkead v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. (1995)
22 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · United States Glass v. Medtronic Inc · Smith v. Marcantonio · Anthony Degidio v. Orville B. Pung · Wishon v. Gammon
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.
“gross abuse of discretion resulting in fundamental unfairness at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prison officials must test prisoners for tuberculosis and treat them ... if they test positive in order to prevent widespread infection”
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.