Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.2d 411 · 1977
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably Hutto v. Finney (1979), Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison (1978)
37 federal appellate · 13 district · 5 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Edelman v. Jordan · Gregg v. Georgia · Shapiro v. Thompson · Bounds v. Smith
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prison administrators do not have unlimited authority over their charges. Even when they do not create barbaric or indecent conditions of confinement, prison officials are subject to a limited judicial check; their actions cannot be entirely arbitrary and capricious. [Genuinely barbarous or shocking prison conditions must not be tolerated; nor are [protective custody] ... prisoners to be deprived of privileges enjoyed by others arbitrarily or without reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Protective custody, as the name implies, is for prisoners who fear for their safety if they are housed with the general population. Some prisoners in protective custody have cooperated with the state in criminal prosecutions: others have been assaulted while in the general population; still others have run up large debts to other prisoners; some simply cannot get along with their fellow prisoners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the values and judgment of a court for the values and judgment of the legislature and prison administration”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.