Gordon J. O'Brien v. John R. Moriarty’s Empirical Analysis
489 F.2d 941 · 1974
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 14 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Sweet v. South Carolina Department of Corrections (1975), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. General Electric Co. (1976)
36 federal appellate · 14 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
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · Price v. Johnston · Sostre v. McGinnis · Novak v. Beto · Palmigiano v. Baxter
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may be a necessary tool of prison discipline, both to punish infractions and to control and perhaps protect inmates whose presence within the general population would create unmanageable risks.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“extremely disproportionate, arbitrary or unnecessary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]mposed inappropriately, or for too long a period”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.