Chapman v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1990 · most notably Bell v. Wolfish (1979), Rhodes v. Chapman (1981)
13 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Procunier v. Martinez · Weems v. United States · Holt v. Sarver · Holt v. Sarver
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'unquestionably a top-flight, first-class facility,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“jobs by assigning more inmates to each job than necessary and by reducing the number of hours that each inmate worked, id. , at 1015; it also found that SOCF had not increased its staff of psychiatrists and social workers since double celling had begun. 9 Despite these generally favorable findings, the District Court concluded that double celling at SOCF was cruel and unusual punishment. The court rested its conclusion on five considerations. One, inmates at SOCF are serving long terms of imprisonment. In the court's view, that fact”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhodes v. Chapman““The question is constantly stated as one of ascertaining the ‘totality of the circumstances’ of the particular case and then inquiring into whether the totality as determined is intolerant or shocking to the conscience, or barbaric or totally unreasonable in the light of the ever changing modern conscience.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.