Brown v. Plata’s Empirical Analysis
563 U.S. 493 · 2011
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 17 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3626 (§ 20409 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]laintiffs rely on systemwide deficiencies in the provision of medical and mental health care that, taken as a whole, subject sick and mentally ill prisoners in California to 'substantial risk of harm' "). The first, objective, prong requires that the plaintiff show that the conditions of the prison pose "a substantial risk of serious harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Courts may not allow constitutional violations to continue simply because a remedy would involve intrusion into the realm of prison administration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because the district court is better positioned [...] to decide the issue, our review of the ... cause determination is deferential.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.