Mann v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
796 F.2d 79 · 1986
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Beard v. Banks (2006), Sands II v. Lewis Adoc (1989)
40 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Bell v. Wolfish · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Carey v. Piphus · Bounds v. Smith
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“suffer for lack of internal definition and prove far easier to state than to apply,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mann contends that he was deprived of hot water for some period of time, but he neither alleged nor proved that any such deprivation was intentional or the result of knowing neglect by jail officials. At trial, in fact, he specifically denied that he was making any such allegation. The district court correctly assumed that there is no constitutional right to hot water and correctly held that punitive intent could not be inferred from the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under Bounds, the government is obligated to provide prisoners 'with adequate legal libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Straub v. Monge
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.