450 F. Supp. 648 - Johnson v. Levine’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008 · most notably Rhodes v. Chapman (1981), Wright v. Collins (1985)
10 federal appellate · 11 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Wolff v. McDonnell · Wood v. Strickland · Procunier v. Martinez · Meachum v. Fano
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he dormitories themselves are kept reasonably clean, and sanitation in the shower and toilet areas is adequate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. Collins“to spend sufficient tax dollars to bring conditions in outdated prisons up to minimally acceptable standards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rhodes v. Chapman“obviously superior to those elsewhere in the institution and clearly meet constitutional requirements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. Collins
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.