McMahon v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis
583 F.2d 172 · 1978
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2017
10 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Hutto v. Finney · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Eisenstadt v. Baker
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“( C)onfinement conditions of a pretrial detainee, it must be analyzed as a due process deprivation rather than as cruel and unusual punishment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Diamond“conditions to prevent self-harm can continue as long as the threat of suicide is present”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Williams
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.