Sinclair v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Ruiz v. Estelle (1982), Spain v. Procunier (1979)
9 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 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. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Johnson v. Avery · Sostre v. McGinnis · Nolan v. Scafati · Palmigiano v. Travisono · Sostre v. Rockefeller
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) There must be rules and regulations officially promulgated by prison authorities and communicated to the prisoner apprising him of what conduct can subject him to serious discipline, what penalty he can expect and the procedure by which such determination will be made. (b) The prisoner must be given official written notice of the specific charge against him prior to hearing. (c) The inmate must be afforded an opportunity to be heard in a hearing to be conducted by an impartial tribunal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that as a general rule the food served to inmates was good, wholesome, clean, and palatable. ... An occasional incident of a foreign object finding its way into the food, while regrettable, does not raise a question of constitutional proportion. It simply raises a problem of internal prison administration to be dealt with by prison authorities as best they can. Id. at 1126 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“confinement for long periods of time without the opportunity for regular outdoor exercise does, as a matter of law constitute cruel and unusual punishment . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Sullivan
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.