McNamara v. Moody’s Empirical Analysis
606 F.2d 621 · 1979
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Jones v. Diamond (1981), Familias Unidas v. Briscoe (1980)
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Wood v. Strickland · Procunier v. Martinez · Hutto v. Finney
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No one wants to be the target of insulting remarks like those in McNamara’s letter. But coarse and offensive remarks are not inherently breaches of discipline and security, nor is there any showing that they will necessarily lead to the breaking down of security or discipline.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“similar to the contentions made by prison officials in Martinez and found unpersuasive by the Supreme Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Loggins v. Delo“in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party ... a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Loggins v. Delo
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.