Goff v. Menke’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 702 · 1982
Citation profile
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
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.
“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“[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 passagee.g. Horns v. Whalen L“[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.