Lee v. Downs Lee’s Empirical Analysis
641 F.2d 1117 · 1981
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Kent v. Johnson (1987), Norman Charles Oliver v. Wayne Scott, et al. (2002)
38 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 McCray v. Burrell · 471 F. Supp. 1095 - Forts v. Ward · 44 Or. App. 755 - Sterling v. Cupp · Lee v. Downs
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have a special sense of privacy in their genitals, and involuntary exposure of them in the presence of people of the other sex may be especially demeaning and humiliating. When not reasonably necessary, that sort of degradation is not to be visited upon those confined in our prisons.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“[M]ale prisoners are also entitled to judicial protection of their right of privacy denied by the presence of female guards stationed in positions to observe the men while undressed or using toilets.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“prison officials have a duty to protect prisoners from self-destruction or self-injury”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.