Wilkins v. Gaddy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that a gratuitous beating by prison guards, even without serious injuries, violated a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment rights
• concluding that a gratuitous beating by prison guards, even without serious injuries, could violate a prisoner’s Eighth Amendment rights
• holding that force causing “bruised heel, lower back pain, increased blood pressure as well as migraine headaches and dizziness” could exceed de minimis threshold
• holding that prison guards’ gratuitous beating of an inmate, even without serious injuries, violated the inmate’s Eighth Amendment rights
• holding that an officer’s use of physical force against an inmate who had merely requested a grievance form constituted excessive force
• recognizing that a “‘push or shove’ that causes no discernable injury” is most likely de minimus

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

165 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Williams v. Curtin
  Sixth Circuit· 2011-01-31· cited 1,364×
• Hogan v. Fischer
  Second Circuit· 2013-12-20· cited 812×
• Chambers v. Pennycook
  Eighth Circuit· 2011-06-06· cited 474×
• Heriberto Rodriguez v. County of Los Angeles
  Ninth Circuit· 2018-05-30· cited 457×
• Paul Thompson, Jr. v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Fourth Circuit· 2017-12-18· cited 400×
• Harris v. Miller
  Second Circuit· 2016-03-15· cited 321×
• Frost v. New York City Police Department
  Second Circuit· 2020-11-12· cited 292×
• Hamilton v. Brown
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-01-04· cited 282×
• Phillip Cordell v. Glen McKinney
  Sixth Circuit· 2014-07-16· cited 280×
• Jackson Ex Rel. Estate of Tucker v. Buckman
  Eighth Circuit· 2014-06-27· cited 277×
• David Goodman v. Z. Diggs
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-01-28· cited 225×
• Altony Brooks v. Captain Jacumin
  Fourth Circuit· 2019-05-10· cited 223×
• Oberist Lee Saunders v. George C. Duke
  Eleventh Circuit· 2014-09-08· cited 220×
• Roy Burns v. Edward Eaton
  Eighth Circuit· 2014-05-23· cited 203×
• Kristin Sconiers v. FNU Lockhart
  Eleventh Circuit· 2020-01-07· cited 201×
• Fleur Bresler v. Wilmington Trust Company
  Fourth Circuit· 2017-04-20· cited 190×
• Victor Santiago v. Daniel Blair
  Eighth Circuit· 2013-02-27· cited 185×
• Paul Stephens v. Nick Degiovanni, individually
  Eleventh Circuit· 2017-03-30· cited 166×
• Estate of Armstrong Ex Rel. Armstrong v. Village of Pinehurst
  Fourth Circuit· 2016-01-11· cited 158×
• Nilesh S. Patel v. James Smith
  Eleventh Circuit· 2020-08-11· cited 139×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Erickson v. Pardus
  Supreme Court· 2007-06-04· cited 34,635×
• Farmer v. Brennan
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 28,443×
• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Hudson v. McMillian
  Supreme Court· 1992-02-25· cited 8,199×
• Wilson v. Seiter
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-17· cited 6,530×
• Whitley v. Albers
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-04· cited 6,155×
• Helling v. McKinney
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-18· cited 4,262×
• Johnson v. Glick
  Second Circuit· 1973-06-29· cited 1,567×
• Wright v. Goord
  Second Circuit· 2009-02-03· cited 1,188×
• Smith v. Mensinger
  Third Circuit· 2002-06-11· cited 652×
• Eric D. Oliver v. Jerry Keller, Sheriff Kyle Edwards Dave Swiekert
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-05-02· cited 477×
• Riley v. Dorton
  Fourth Circuit· 1997-06-16· cited 169×
• Juan Gomez v. William Chandler, Sergeant Henry Reece, Sergeant Harold Roden Gregory Palmeiri
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-11-15· cited 143×
• Allain Delont Norman v. Otis Taylor, Deputy Sergeant
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-06-16· cited 142×
• United States v. Verbickas
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-02-28· cited 107×
• John R. Taylor, Jr. v. Ernest McDuffie Ronnie Lovick
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-09-03· cited 56×
• Brown v. Lippard
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-12-12· cited 26×
• Keith J. Hudson v. Jack McMillian Cso III
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-07-31· cited 21×

Other cases named Wilkins v. Gaddy

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Wilkins v. Gaddy
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-01-23· cited 3×
• Wilkins v. Gaddy
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-01-23
• Wilkins v. Gaddy
  Fourth Circuit· 2008-10-29