John Doe v. Charles W. Gaughan’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.2d 871 · 1986
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Norman Knight v. Mark J. Mills, Etc. (1987), Amanullah v. Nelson (1987)
18 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Bell v. Wolfish · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Dandridge v. Williams · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Defendants [the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health; the correctional officers at the Treatment Center and the Superintendent of the Correctional Institute at Bridgewater] shall not use or permit the use of discipline or punishment.... 2. To the extent patients at said Treatment Center are sequestered or segregated by themselves in rooms or cells used at least in part to isolate patients for behavior defendants deem inappropriate and unacceptable, (a) such sequestering or segregation shall be effected in conformity with minimum standards of procedural due process, including notice of the kinds of behavior which may lead to sequestering, notice of particular charges or complaints of such behavior, an opportunity to be heard and confront such charges or complaints and present evidence in rebuttal, a hearing before persons other than the complainant, and notice and a written record of disposition sufficient to permit administrative review; (b) such sequestering or segregation shall be in locations which conform to minimum standards of human decency....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pearson v. Fair“There is no constitutional requirement ... that all mental patients in State-run hospitals receive the same rights or care”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not ... for punishment but for therapeutic as well as public safety purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mathieu v. Boyle
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.