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672 F.2d 702 · 1982

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
1
states following
August 2011
most recently cited

37 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Martin v. Sargent (1985), Jones v. Mabry (1983)

37 federal appellate · 1 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

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1997E

Relies on Cotton v. Hutto · Smallwood v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole · 458 F. Supp. 720 - Finney v. Mabry

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

  1. “The first is axiomatic; the State must do everything within its ability to provide fair and humane confinement of its prisoners. This requires a continuing reexamination of its physical facilities and its overall prison policies to assure their compatability with constitutional standards.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[I]n order to avoid duplicative actions as well as inconsistent interpretations of the same decree, wherever possible the individual claims should be processed by the same court....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[A] class member should not be able to prosecute a separate equitable action once his or her class has been certified.”
    1 later decision 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.