In re Jackson Lockdown/MCO Cases’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2005
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Wilson v. Garcia · Rizzo v. Goode · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of between 6,000 and 10,000 persons, all of whom were under the Michigan Department of Corrections' jurisdiction and prisoners at SPSM at any time from May 21, 1981 through August 31, 1981.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watsy v. Johnson“[s]ettlement of all claims by members of the class arising out of the May, 1981 riots and the subsequent lockdown at SPSM,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watsy v. Johnson“[d]ismissal with prejudice of all pending claims against the defendants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watsy v. Johnson
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.