Cooper v. Riddle’s Empirical Analysis
540 F.2d 731 · 1976
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably Paine v. Baker (1979), Wetzel v. Edwards (1980)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Meachum v. Fano · Baxter v. Palmigiano · Ristaino v. Ross · John Wesley Clutchette v. Raymond J. Procunier
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Holding that arrangements like this are within the reach of the procedural protections of the Due Process Clause would place the Clause astride the day-today functioning of state prisons and involve the judiciary in issues and discretionary decisions that are not the business of federal judges. We decline to so interpret and apply the Due Process Clause. The federal courts do not sit to supervise state prisons, the administration of which is of acute interest to the States. Id. at 228-29 , 96 S.Ct. at 2540 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gorham v. Hutto“within reach of the procedural protections of the Due Process Clause would place the Clause astride the day-to-day functioning of state prisons and involve the judiciary in issues and discretionary decisions that are not the business of federal judges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Altizer v. Paderick“the role of super wardens of state penal institutions”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Altizer v. Paderick
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.