485 F. Supp. 122 - Ramos v. Lamm’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 15 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably Ramos v. Lamm (1980), Ramos v. Lamm (1983)
11 federal appellate · 15 district · 6 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Monroe v. Pape
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidenced . . . deliberate indifference to the prisoners' protected interests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ramos v. Lamm · Ramos v. Lamm“The primary function and purpose of the [Colorado diagnostic] program shall be to provide a diagnostic examination and evaluation of all offenders sentenced by the courts of this state, so that each such offender may be assigned to a correctional institution which has the type of security and, to the extent possible, appropriate programs to accomplish maximum rehabilitation of such offender and to prepare an offender for placement into as productive an employment as possible following imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ... a policy of judicial restraint cannot encompass any failure to take cognizance of valid constitutional claims whether arising in a federal or state institution. When a prison regulation or practice offends a fundamental constitutional guarantee, federal courts will discharge their duty to protect constitutional rights.””
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.