Rojelio E. Rivera v. E. O. Toft, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.2d 534 · 1973
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably United States v. Duke (1976), Brice v. Day (1979)
11 federal appellate · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 4042 (Prison Camera Reform Act of 2021) · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · United States v. Tucker · Graham v. Willingham · Tarlton v. Clark · Earl X. Smoake v. J. T. Willingham, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The primary supervision in the administration of federal reformatories is delegated by statute, 18 U.S.C. § 4042 , to the Bureau of Prisons under the direction of the Attorney General, empowering them to review any action taken or approved by the local wardens. . “From what we said above, it is clear that personal grievances should be presented, in the first instance, by administrative remedies available to the prisoner with the Bureau of Prisons. Tarlton v. Clark, 441 F.2d 384 (5th Cir. 1971), cert. denied 403 U.S. 934 , 91 S.Ct. 2263 , 29 L.Ed.2d 713 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It must be remembered that the discipline of inmates arises while they are in custody pursuant to unrelated valid convictions and this is not considered an 'arrest'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glouser v. Parratt
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.