Hill v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis
603 F.2d 1256 · 1979
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably Orpiano v. Johnson (1982), Hill v. Duriron Co. (1981)
34 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mitchell v. Maurer · DeCosta v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Taylor v. Oxford · Muhich v. Allen
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“encompasses ongoing prison practices and regulations with regard to matters such as placement in maximum security, deadlocks, unhealthy living conditions, unnecessary exposure to violence-prone inmates, overcrowded physical environments, and cruel or unusual punishment by prison authorities.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a single incident that occurred in the prison.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the findings of fact and conclusions of law submitted by a party when it did not have before it either the other party's proposed findings and conclusions or the magistrate's findings and recommendations; thus, the court concluded that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGill v. Goff
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.