A.T. v. Harder’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
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Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3626 (§ 20409 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor · Gerstein v. Pugh · Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Jones v. Bock
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim for violations of the Eighth Amendment requires (1) an 'objectively sufficiently serious ... denial of the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities' and (2) a 'sufficiently culpable state of mind' on the part of the responsible official.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the federal government and at least 21 states have prohibited the use of disciplinary isolation for juveniles (and in fact, the State of New York has also largely eliminated the practice)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“numerous examples from around the country where courts have found that the imposition of solitary confinement violated the constitutional rights of adult inmates with mental conditions,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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