412 F. Supp. 896 - Hodges v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2000 · most notably Bell v. Wolfish (1979), Mary Beth v. City of Chicago Tikalsky (1983)
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Procunier v. Martinez · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Johnson v. United States · Oburn v. Shapp
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This requires the inmate to take off all of his clothes, which are then searched, and submit to a body search. The inmate raises his arms, opens his mouth for inspection and removes his dentures, if any. He must also spread his legs apart, lift his penis and scrotum to reveal the area directly between his legs. He must also bare the soles of his feet. The inmate must then bend over and spread his buttocks to reveal his anus to the guard. Hodges v. Klein, 412 F.Supp. 896, 897 (D.N.J.1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Unquestionably, entry into a controlled environment entails a dramatic loss of privacy. Moreover, the justifiable reasons for invading an inmate’s privacy are both obvious and easily established. We are persuaded, however, that the surrender of privacy is not total and that some residuum meriting the protection of the Fourth Amendment survives the transfer into custody.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“maximum security area ... in which certain inmates, determined to be disruptive or assaultive, are confined under twenty-four hour lock-up conditions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibson v. Lynch
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.