Sullivan v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
609 F.2d 197 · 1980
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably McCrae v. Wt Hankins (1983), Lawson v. Singletary (1996)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Pell v. Procunier · Hill v. Estelle · Walter Lee Ervin v. Hoyt C. Cupp, Warden · Joseph M. Aragon v. R. A. Wathen and C. A. Young
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a compelling interest in maintaining security and order in its prisons and, to the extent that it furthers this interest in reasonable and non-arbitrary ways, property claims by inmates must give way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.