Benjamin v. Jacobson’s Empirical Analysis
124 F.3d 162 · 1997
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Garrett v. Hawk (1997), Inmates of Suffolk County Jail v. Rouse (1997)
20 federal appellate · 5 district · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3626 (§ 20409 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Wolff v. McDonnell · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[pjrospective relief in any civil action with respect to prison conditions shall extend no further than necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right of a particular plaintiff or plaintiffs. The court shall not grant or approve any prospective relief unless the court finds that such relief is narrowly drawn, extends no further than necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right, and is the least intrusive means necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right. The court shall give substantial weight to any adverse impact on public safety or the operation of a criminal justice system caused by the relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“have generated a judicially administered structure comprising over ninety related court orders and extending to more than thirty discrete areas of prison administration. The areas include the handling of detainees' mail and property, cell and body searches, maintenance of the physical plant, food service, and health and sanitary issues.... In 1982, pursuant to the agreement of the parties, a court monitoring agency called the Office of Compliance Consultants ("OCC”) was created. The OCC has monitored compliance with the Consent Decrees since that time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“implicitly [drawing] a ... distinction between two kinds of final judgments for separation of powers purposes--final judgments without prospective effects, which could not be constitutionally revised through legislation, and final judgments with prospective effects, whose effects could constitutionally be so revised.”
2 later decisions 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.