Benjamin v. Malcolm’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2007
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Bell v. Wolfish · Kolender v. Lawson · Rhodes v. Chapman · United States v. Swift & Co. · Rhem v. Malcolm
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well recognized that in institutional reform litigation ... judicially-imposed remedies must be open to adaptation when unforeseen obstacles present themselves, to improvement when a better understanding of the problem emerges, and to accommodation of a wider constellation of interests than is represented in the adversarial setting of the courtroom.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As this court noted just three years ago: In terms of maintenance, sanitation, medical care and even such essentials as food and security from assault, HDM ..., despite the vigorous efforts of [its] administrators, appearfs] unable adequately to support even [its] current levelf ] of population.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Benjamin v. Malcolm
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.