Rance Lee via v. Kenneth S. Cliff, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.2d 271 · 1972
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Betsy A. Jennings v. Ilus W. Davis (1973), United States v. Kember (1980)
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Basista v. Weir · Presbyterian Church in the United States v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · Negrich v. Hohn · United States ex rel. Gittlemacker v. County of Philadelphia
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.
“Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ . . . the authority of prison officials to ‘regulate’ the exercise of the right should not be employed to wrongfully interfere with the exercise of the right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“without alleging or proving prejudice to his defense at trial by the alleged actual infringements”
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.