Ortiz v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.3d 664 · 2009
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Gomez v. Randle (2012), Maddox v. Love (2011)
10 federal appellate · 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C
Relies on Turner v. Safley · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz · Preiser v. Newkirk · Christopher Former Secretary of State et al. v. Harbury
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here [wa]s no realistic possibility that Mr. Ortiz will again be incarcerated in the same state facility and therefore be subject to the actions of which he complain[ed] here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny relief that our judgment might permit would be purely speculative in nature.”
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.