Walker v. Mintzes’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.2d 920 · 1985
Citation profile
212 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 319 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999), Lawrence D. Caldwell v. Harold G. Miller, Warden (1986)
212 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Hudson v. Palmer
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 319 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'minimal civilized measure of life's necessities.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘prison regulations which reasonably limit the times, places, and manner in which inmates may engage in legal research and preparation of legal papers do not transgress the constitutionally protected rights so long as the regulations do not frustrate access to the courts.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[We] instead interpret Rhodes to require consideration of all the prison’s conditions and circumstances, rather than isolated conditions and events, when addressing eighth amendment claims. In certain extreme circumstances the totality itself may amount to an eighth amendment violation, but there still must exist a specific condition on which to base the eighth amendment claim. We believe such conditions, “considered alone or in combination [with other conditions],” (citation omitted) must amount to a deprivation of “life’s necessities” (citation omitted), before a violation of the eighth amendment can be found.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.