Mitchell v. Beaubouef’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 412 · 1978
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably DeCintio v. Westchester County Medical Center (1987), Woodall v. Foti (1981)
33 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4001 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Rasberry v. Spradling
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At most, the defendants’ report should have been treated as an answer to the inmates’ complaint, thus setting the stage for further pretrial proceedings in which, once the issues had been delineated, it could be determined whether any factual issues remained to be litigated in a bench trial, or, if either party demanded it pursuant to rule 38, Fed.R.Civ.P., in a trial by jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nordgren v. Hayward
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.