Jackson v. Meachum’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 578 · 1983
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Toussaint v. McCarthy (1986), Harris v. Thigpen (1991)
16 federal appellate · 8 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Meachum v. Fano · Rhodes v. Chapman · Hutto v. Finney · Jackson v. Indiana
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Rhodes ... makes clear that discomfort compelled by conditions of confinement, without more, does not violate the Eighth Amendment, that wanton, unnecessary, or grossly disproportionate imposition of restraints does violate the amendment, as does a serious deprivation of basic human needs, viewed under current standards defining ‘the minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reveal ... a widely shared disinclination to declare even very lengthy periods of segregated confinement beyond the pale of minimally civilized conduct on the part of prison authorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“discomfort compelled by conditions of confinement, without more, does not violate the amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Coughlin
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.