Joseph T. Rozecki, Jr. v. Charles W. Gaughan, Superintendent’s Empirical Analysis
459 F.2d 6 · 1972
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1993 · most notably Rizzo v. Goode (1976), Gates v. Collier (1974)
23 federal appellate · 11 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Pierson v. Ray · Jackson v. Bishop · 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Humane considerations and constitutional requirements are not, in this day, to be measured or limited by dollar considerations.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(T)he obligation of the Respondents (prison officials) to eliminate unconstitutionalities does not depend upon what the Legislatures may do”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Nor can it be any excuse for continuous, as distinguished from temporary accidental, inhumane treatment . that the representatives of the state were doing the best they could.””
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.