Wright v. Rushen’s Empirical Analysis
642 F.2d 1129 · 1981
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 20 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Wilson v. Seiter (1991), Hoptowit v. Ray (1982)
64 federal appellate · 20 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Sumner v. Mata · Trop v. Dulles · Jiro J. Enomoto, Etc. v. James C. Wright
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(E)ach condition of confinement does not exist in isolation; the court must consider the effect of each condition in the context of the prison environment, especially when the ill-effects of particular conditions are exacerbated by other related conditions.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o obtain a preliminary injunction[,] a party must show either a combination of probable success on the merits and the possibility of irreparable injury[,] or that serious questions are raised and the balance of hardships tips sharply in its favor.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adequate food, clothing, shelter, sanitation, medical care, and personal safety.”
5 later decisions 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.