Johnson v. Levine’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 1378 · 1978
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008 · most notably Rhodes v. Chapman (1981), Wright v. Collins (1985)
26 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 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 Hite v. Leeke · 450 F. Supp. 648 - Johnson v. Levine · 455 F. Supp. 727 - Nelson v. Collins
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... we are convinced that the overcrowded conditions cannot be completely eliminated without the construction and utilization of a new facility, which Maryland proposes to have available by June 1, 1980. Since the constitutional violation here is not as extreme or as shocking as in some of the reported cases, and since Maryland's plan is practical and reasonable and will achieve the required objective of elimination of overcrowding in its penal institutions, we think its plan and its schedule deserve judicial approval.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a high level of violence and psychological injury to some prisoners.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with instructions to fashion new decrees which (would) incorporate Maryland's plan and its schedule (of June 1, 1980) for the elimination of overcrowding in the two penal institutions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. Collins
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.