Smith v. Iron County’s Empirical Analysis
692 F.2d 685 · 1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2011
8 federal appellate ·
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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Bell v. Wolfish · Owen v. City of Independence · Pell v. Procunier · Johnson v. Glick
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'within the province and professional expertise of corrections officials' to whose judgment courts should defer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Uphoff
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.