Morales v. Turman’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 993 · 1977
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably Spain v. Procunier (1979), Romeo v. Youngberg (1980)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Rizzo v. Goode · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · O'Connor v. Donaldson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“normally a discretionary matter for the trial court to decide,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While a right to treatment is doubtful, any constitutional abuses that may be found in the .... juvenile program can be corrected without embracing such doctrine in this case. The eighth amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment as the constitutional standard for conditions of imprisonment can adequately remedy conditions in . .. institutions. For instance, the physical abuse of the students and degrading work assignments could be eliminated as cruel and unusual without adopting the questionable doctrine of a right to treatment. Admittedly, the eighth amendment will not require the state to provide extensive vocational training, detailed personality assessments or coeducational facilities. The choice of providing these services properly remains with the State . . . herein.” (footnotes omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Santana v. Collazo
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.