Sands v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.2d 417 · 1973
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably Gates v. Collier (1974), McKinnon v. Patterson (1977)
80 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Haines v. Kerner · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez · Allen v. State Board of Elections
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No party has contended that Texas prison officials are acting outside the scope of their statutory authority in carrying on these allegedly unconstitutional practices. The “practices” whose enforcement the inmates seek to enjoin are, in reality, the Rules and Regulations of the Texas Department of Corrections, as applied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“painstaking opinion by Judge Waterman-painstaking not only in the careful exploration of every conceivable way to find jurisdiction, but also painstaking in the evident sense of trying to find an escape from a painfully unfortunate result ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]hose conditions of human existence which accompany confinement in both disciplinary and administrative segregation and the loss of any type of gain time collectively and severally constitute grievous losses ... [and] these losses are of such a grievous nature that an inmate’s interest in avoiding their unrightful imposition is such as to outweigh the governmental interest in summary adjudication ____ Therefore, this Court further holds that, prior to the imposition of these grievous losses, there must be a hearing appropriate to the nature of the loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adams v. Brierton
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.