Ambrose v. Malcolm’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1996
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Rhem v. Malcolm · 406 F. Supp. 318 - Pugh v. Locke · Jones v. Metzger · 371 F. Supp. 594 - Rhem v. Malcolm · Hamilton v. Love
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . it is manifest that the defendants may not house detainees in the dormitories of (the prison) in numbers significantly in excess of its rated capacity. Certainly this is true where, as here, the defendants have presented no evidence as to why the capacity set by the defendants themselves — or their predecessors— should not control, subject only to such variation as the record in this case may justify.” (at 494)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chapman v. Rhodes
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.