Fulford v. King’s Empirical Analysis
692 F.2d 11 · 1982
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Jackson v. Cain (1989), Green v. McKaskle (1986)
10 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
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Dandridge v. Williams · Rhodes v. Chapman · Robinson v. State of California · Spain v. Procunier
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.
“Requiring all CCR prisoners to wear a black box when outside the prison does not violate the eighth amendment. Its use may inflict some discomfort, such as numbness of the arms and temporary marks, but the record does not show that prisoners are exposed to great pain or that any of their discomfort is occasioned either deliberately, as punishment, or mindlessly, with indifference to the prisoners’ humanity. The box’s use outside of the prison is for a rational reason, security, and is directed by a standard prison policy, not left to unfettered discretion of guards. Under these circumstances, it is not within our power to substitute our judgment for that of the prison officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“use of the black box as a retaliatory or punitive measure would be an element in deciding whether black boxes are impressed on inmates within the prison as punishment and, as such, whether this use violates the eighth amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knox v. McGinnis“by the greater risk of escape when prisoners are outside the institution and [by] the reduced number of guards available to oversee the prisoners during those journeys.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knox v. McGinnis
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.