Ervin v. Busby’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 147 · 1993
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018
10 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
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Daniels v. Williams · Meachum v. Fano · Jackson v. Indiana
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sheriff of any county in this state, where there is no jail or the jail of the county is insufficient, may commit any person in his custody ... to the nearest jail in the same judicial district.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stigall v. Madden“[T]he due process clause is not implicated when a pretrial detainee is transferred from one prison to another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carr v. State
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.