621 F. Supp. 51 - Miles v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2016
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2672 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2675
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Gregg v. Georgia · Roe v. Wade · United States v. W. T. Grant Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[The state must provide] nutritionally adequate food that is prepared and served under conditions which do not present an immediate danger to the health and well being of the inmates who consume it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Alston v. Coughlin“the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hadix v. Johnson
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.