Bethea v. Crouse’s Empirical Analysis
417 F.2d 504 · 1969
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 22 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Helling v. McKinney (1993), Johnson v. Glick (1973)
70 federal appellate · 22 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
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Robinson v. State of California · Trop v. Dulles · Weems v. United States · Cooper v. Pate
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the general rule (is) that the basic responsibility for the control and management of penal institutions, including the discipline, treatment and care of the confined, lies with the responsible administrative agency and is not subject to judicial review unless exercised in such manner as to constitute a clear abuse or caprice on the part of prison officials. Bethea v. Crouse, 417 F.2d 504 (10th Cir. 1969).””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levy v. Dillon · Brown v. Uphoff“... (W)e have never turned a deaf ear to a bona fide claim for relief based upon the deprivation of a constitutional right when asserted by federal or state prisoner, either in the nature of mandamus or habeas corpus proceedings or, as ... a claim under the Civil Rights Act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is sufficiently severe in the circumstances to shock the conscience of a reasonable man”
2 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.