Smith v. Fairman’s Empirical Analysis
690 F.2d 122 · 1982
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Walker v. Mintzes (1985), Lawrence D. Caldwell v. Harold G. Miller, Warden (1986)
13 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Rhodes v. Chapman · Trop v. Dulles · Hoptowit v. Ray · Ruiz v. Estelle · Yusuf Asad Madyun v. James R. Thompson, Governor
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o static 'test' can exist by which courts determine whether conditions of confinement are cruel and unusual, for the Eighth Amendment 'must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“totality of the conditions of confinement”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Godinez v. Lane
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.