Leo F. Feeley, IV v. George Sampson, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
570 F.2d 364 · 1978
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 11 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably Bell v. Wolfish (1979), Block v. Rutherford (1984)
42 federal appellate · 11 district · 9 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Gerstein v. Pugh · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would be impossible, without playing fast and loose with the English language, for a court to examine the conditions of confinement under which detainees are incarcerated . . . and conclude that their custody was not punitive in effect if not in intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bell v. Wolfish“[w]hat days and hours and circumstances are reasonable is largely for the local authorities to decide in the first instance, subject only to limited court review for arbitrari ness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Restrictions upon detainees that serve no proper purpose, but merely reflect the lack of imagination or energy of local officials, are properly the subject of judicial correction.”
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.