Battle v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
788 F.2d 1421 · 1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2007
5 federal appellate ·
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 United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Bounds v. Smith · Whitley v. Albers · Rhodes v. Chapman · Squirtco v. Seven-Up Co.
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]o the extent that [prison] conditions are restrictive and even harsh, they are part of the penalty that criminal offenders pay for their offense against society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ruark v. Solano“[I]t is unmistak[a]bly clear that the orders and injunctions protecting the inmates against constitutional violations ... remain in full force and effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Battle v. Fields
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.