Kendrick v. Bland’s Empirical Analysis
740 F.2d 432 · 1984
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson (1989), Knop v. Johnson (1992)
23 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Hewitt v. Helms · Procunier v. Martinez · Rhodes v. Chapman
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no broader than necessary to remedy the constitutional violation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'fashion the least intrusive remedy that will still be effective.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he federal equity court in fashioning a remedy must afford relief which is 'no broader than necessary to remedy the constitutional violation.' " Kendrick v. Bland, 740 F.2d 432 , 437 (6th Cir.1984) (quoting Newman v. State of Alabama, 683 F.2d 1312 , 1319 (11th Cir.1982)). "These underlying and restrictive principles of comity and federalism are perhaps nowhere more compelling than in actions seeking relief against unconstitutional practices, policies and conduct manifest in state penal institutions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.