Benjamin v. Malcolm’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “The City cannot evade the fact that it bears a significant share of responsibility for the current crisis in its jails. ... [T]he City has consistently underestimated the projected jail populations and continued to do so even after the “crack” crisis commenced.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Benjamin v. Koehler · 752 F. Supp. 140 - Benjamin v. Sielaff

2. “First, did the rise in arrests caused by the “crack” epidemic constitute a new and unforeseeable condition sufficient to warrant modification of the decrees or does the City itself bear responsibility for failing to foresee the present overcrowding crisis? Second, are the defendants’ requested modifications, each of which must be tested separately, constitutionally acceptable or are they in derogation of the primary purpose of the decrees to ensure constitutionally minimal conditions for detainees?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Benjamin v. Koehler

3. “it is constitutionally tolerable to allow inmates to be housed at forty square feet in the North Facility for a single fifteen day period on a temporary basis for a limited and definite period as an emergency measure, designed to give the City an additional period of time to cope with the current population crisis.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Benjamin v. Malcolm