486 F. Supp. 41 - Gray v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2005
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Pell v. Procunier · Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Roseboro v. Garrison
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person who shall be committed to the adult correctional institutions to answer for any criminal offense, whether convicted or awaiting trial ... may be permitted to labor in the discretion of the director ... for the state, and in that case may be paid not more than three dollars ($3.00) a day for every day he or she shall labor with the express consent of the director, ... to be credited to the prisoner’s account by the assistant director of administration, ... and to be disbursed to the prisoner in accordance with the rules and regulations of the institutions; provided, further, however, there shall be maintained on account at all times at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the earnings of each prisoner up to a maximum of ... five hundred dollars ($500) ...; those funds to be turned over to the prisoner at the time of his or her release from the institution, the funds being his or her property; the moneys to be paid to the prisoner by order of the assistant director of management services upon the general treasurer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“are not wages in a realistic economic employer-employee relationship. They are, rather, a gratuitous payment authorized by the [state] and made by virtue of an administrative policy promoted and advanced in the best interests of penology and sociology. The plaintiff has no inherent legal right to the payment of this gratuity, nor to determine its form or amount.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]nasmuch as prisoners may transfer funds from their spending account to a 'free-world' interest bearing savings account”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eubanks v. McCotter
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.