Cunningham v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.2d 481 · 1976
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably McKinnon v. Patterson (1977), Anderson v. Coughlin (1983)
17 federal appellate ·
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 · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Hood · Baxter v. Palmigiano · Robins v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Footnote 19 in Wolff distinguishes between 'disciplinary confinement' and 'loss of privileges'; arguably keeplocking is a form of 'disciplinary confinement,' (that is, explicitly covered by the holding in Wolff ), even though it is not ' "solitary”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“confinement' as that term is generally understood.”
1 later decision 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.