457 F. Supp. 561 - Epps v. Levine’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2010
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Younger v. Harris · Wolff v. McDonnell · Perry v. Sindermann · Fuentes v. Shevin
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provide for the appointment of a qualified person as jailor or warden of the county jail_ A jailor or warden appointed shall be responsible for the safekeeping, care and feeding of all prisoners in the jail.... These provisions do not affect the powers and duties of the Sheriff of the county with respect to the safekeeping and custody of all prisons, except when the prisoners are in jail....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dotson v. Chester““Rather than trying to create legal rights in pretrial detainees, the Maryland legislature in § 690 defined the responsibilities of the Division of Correction . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fine, probation, or incarceration imposed to punish, rehabilitate, or deter a convicted criminal defendant.”
1 later decision 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.