Ruiz v. McKaskle’s Empirical Analysis
724 F.2d 1149 · 1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2013
1 federal appellate · 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 Ruiz v. Estelle · Cotton v. Hinton · Adams Extract Co. v. Pleasure Hours, Inc. · Ruiz v. Estelle · Ruiz v. Estelle
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.
“TDC double its staff-prisoner ratio to one uniformed staff member for every six prisoners. It specified how TDC was to deploy the staff in prisoner living areas, permitting TDC to alter the deployment pattern only upon a showing that the “prescribed staffing pattern is unnecessary in the particular instance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ruiz v. McCotter
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.