Rutherford v. Pitchess’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 572 · 1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2007
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc. · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Ramos v. Lamm
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nmates . . . in the general area when a 'shakedown' inspection of their cells is undertaken . . . be permitted to be sufficiently proximate to their respective cells that they may observe the process and respond to such questions or make such requests as circumstances may indicate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Block v. Rutherford“recogniz[ing] the important security interests of the [penal] institution but at the same time recogniz[ing] the psychological and punitive effects which the prolonged loss of contact visitation has upon detainees. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Block v. Rutherford“unreasonable, exaggerated response to security concerns.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Block v. Rutherford
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.