Wiggins v. Rushen’s Empirical Analysis
760 F.2d 1009 · 1985
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Sample v. Johnson (1985), Dilley v. Gunn (1995)
26 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Roe v. Wade · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Carey v. Piphus · Powell v. McCormack
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“capable of repetition but evading review”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the challenged action is of limited duration, too short to be fully litigated prior to its cessation or expiration; and (2) there is a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party will be subjected to the same action again.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he possibility that he will be convicted [of pending charges] and again sent to the maximum security unit at Soledad is too speculative to rise to the level of reasonable expectation or demonstrated possibility”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Price v. Arpaio
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.