Hamm v. County’s Empirical Analysis
774 F.2d 1567 · 1985
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Monmouth County Correctional Institutional Inmates v. Lanzaro (1987), Marsh v. Butler County (2001)
68 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Gregg v. Georgia · Gerstein v. Pugh
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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'in regard to providing pretrial detainees with such basic necessities as food, living space, and medical care the minimum standard allowed by the due process clause is the same as that allowed by the eighth amendment for convicted persons.’ ” Belcher v. City of Foley, 30 F.3d 1390, 1396 (11th Cir.1994) (quoting Hamm v. DeKalb County, 774 F.2d 1567, 1574 (11th Cir.1985)). 12 . For two examples of cases that found the”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The eighth amendment, which applies to the state through the fourteenth amendment, Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 , 82 S.Ct. 1417 , 8 L.Ed.2d 758 (1962), prohibits the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment. Under that provision, states may not impose punishments that shock the conscience, involve unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain, offend evolving notions of decency, or are grossly disproportionate to the offense for which they are imposed. Newman v. Alabama, 503 F.2d 1320 , 1330 n. 14 (5th Cir.1974), cert. denied, 421 U.S. 948 , 95 S.Ct. 1680 , 44 L.Ed.2d 102 (1975). See Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 102-03 , 97 S.Ct. 285, 290 , 50 L.Ed.2d 251 (1976); Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 173 , 96 S.Ct. 2909, 2925 , 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976) (plurality opinion); Troy v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 101 , 78 S.Ct. 590, 598 , 2 L.Ed.2d 630 (1958). Under this provision, the Supreme Court has stated, “conditions of confinement ... may make intolerable an otherwise constitutional term of imprisonment.” Ingraham v. Wright, 430 U.S. 651 , 669 n. 38, 97 S.Ct. 1401 , 1411 n. 38, 51 L.Ed.2d 711 (1977) (quoting Johnson v. Glick, 481 F.2d 1028, 1032 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 1033 , 94 S.Ct. 462 , 38 L.Ed.2d 324 (1973)). Various conditions, “alone or in combination, may deprive inmates of the minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities. Such conditions could be cruel and unusual under the contemporary standard of decency.” Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337, 347 , 101 S.Ct. 23”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is equally clear that the due process clause does not purport to regulate the general conditions and quality of life in the country's jails, and that the courts should not attempt to make 'judgment calls' to determine which of various marginally different conditions might be more appropriate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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