Clarence R. Edwards v. John B. Duncan, D.C. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
355 F.2d 993 · 1966
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2005 · most notably Estelle v. Gamble (1976), Landman v. Royster (1971)
49 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Cooper v. Pate · Ex parte Hull · Cochran v. Kansas · Coffin v. Reichard
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he hands-off doctrine operates reasonably to the extent that it prevents judicial review of deprivations which are necessary or reasonable concomitants of imprisonment.”
4 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.