Welch v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis
196 F.3d 389 · 1999
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Robert Sims v. Christopher Artuz Philip Coombe Jr Cyril Coefield Sylvia Laguna Lorette Klein Donald Selsky (2000), Armando Colon v. Thomas Howard (2000)
7 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Sandin v. Conner · Hewitt v. Helms · Vitek v. Jones · Frazier v. Coughlin
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.
“[T]he duration and the frequency of such deprivations are highly relevant to whether the conditions of a plaintiff's confinement should be considered atypical.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“imposes atypical and significant hardship ... in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“periods of comparable deprivation typically endured by other prisoners in the ordinary course of prison administration,”
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.