Grenning v. Miller-Stout’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.3d 1235 · 2014
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Turner v. Safley · Rhodes v. Chapman · Johnson v. California
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he existence of a legitimate penological justification has, however, been used in considering whether adverse treatment is sufficiently gratuitous to constitute punishment for Eighth Amendment purposes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. Clarke“'[T]here is no legitimate penological justification for requiring inmates to suffer physical and psychological harm by living in constant illumination. This practice is unconstitutional.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Scherf“[t]he precise role of legitimate penological interests is not entirely clear in the context of an Eighth Amendment challenge to conditions of confinement,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. Clarke
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.