Michael v. Costello v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.2d 1239 · 1976
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Rhodes v. Chapman (1981), Campbell v. McGruder (1978)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Younger v. Harris · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Ex parte Poresky · Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba
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.
“By the defendant's own definition, which was adopted from the American Justice Institute's Report on Overcrowding in the Florida Prison System '(emergency capacity) represents the population beyond which the institution must be considered critically, and quite probably, dangerously overcrowded. It includes every bed in the institution which it is judged can safely be occupied at times of peak populations either due to intermittent and unpredictable population surges or to emergency and temporary circumstances within the institution or elsewhere in the division.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Florida's representations of impossibility are serious enough to warrant further fact-finding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Overcrowding in the Florida Prison System”
2 later decisions 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.