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Maxwell v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis

668 F.2d 361 · 1981

Citation profile

70
cited by 70 later decisions
1
states following
November 2022
most recently cited

37 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Ruiz v. Estelle (1982), United States v. Bloomfield (1994)

37 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

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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 Bell v. Wolfish · Rhodes v. Chapman · Hutto v. Finney · Trop v. Dulles · Procunier v. Navarette

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

  1. “sufficiently informs the court of the basis for the trial court's decision....”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “intimate[d] no judgment as to whether deprivation of clothing or bedding as a punitive measure, standing alone, would be cruel and unusual”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “find the facts specially and state separately its conclusions of law thereon....”
    2 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.