Lock v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2013
2 federal appellate ·
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 · Townsend v. Sain · Gregg v. Georgia · Pierson v. Ray
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the committing authority provides no background information thus it is safer to isolate them from the general prison population and that unit is the best possible place consistent with good safety and security not only for the detainee but for convicted inmates and staff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lock v. Jenkins“confinement for long periods ... without opportunity for regular exercise does ... constitute cruel and unusual punishment.... (The condition here) comports with constitutional requisites.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lock v. Jenkins“some type of security, disciplinary or management problem for the committing county and thus required special security considerations to assure their presence at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lock v. Jenkins
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.