Bono v. Saxbe’s Empirical Analysis
620 F.2d 609 · 1980
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Ramos v. Lamm (1980), Toussaint v. McCarthy (1986)
62 federal appellate · 7 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Gregg v. Georgia · Meachum v. Fano
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[i]nactivity, lack of companionship and a low level of intellectual stimulation do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment even if they continue for an indefinite period of time.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Supreme Court in Wolfish relied on the possibility of contraband being brought into the prison during contact visits to justify the use of strip searches. Those contact visits were not closely supervised by guards. Wolfish should not be extended to the facts of this case without a showing that there is some risk that contraband will be smuggled into Marion during non-contact supervised visits, or that some other risk within the prison will be presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For conditions” to transgress the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, they must be "so harsh as to shock the general conscience,”
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.