Jordan v. Wolke’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Once the Government has exercised its conceded authority to detain a person pending trial, it obviously is entitled to employ devices that are calculated to effectuate this detention____ And the fact that such detention interferes with the detainee’s understandable desire to live as comfortably as possible and with as little restraint as possible during confinement does not convert the conditions or restrictions of detention into punishment.” sji S-S !}! 5j« 5$: “Absent a showing of any expressed intent to punish on the part of the detention facility officials, that determination generally will turn on ‘whether an alternative purpose to which [the restriction] may rationally be connected is assignable for it, and whether it appears excessive in relation to the alternative purpose assigned [to it].’ ... Thus, if a particular condition or restriction of pretrial detention is reasonably related to a legitimate governmental objective, it does not, without more, amount to ‘punishment’.” “Restraints that are reasonably related to the institution’s interest in maintain ing jail security do not, without more, constitute unconstitutional punishment, even if they are discomforting and are restrictions, that the detainee would not have experienced had he been released while awaiting trial.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tyra v. Harger

2. “confining a given number of people in a given amount of space in such a manner as to cause them to endure genuine privations and hardship over an extended period of time might raise serious questions under the Due Process Clause as to whether those conditions amounted to punishment....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Lock v. Jenkins

3. “searches of detainees that were performed as a matter of course after each contact visit. In approving these searches, the Court noted that an alternative to their use would be to”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Diamond