Ruiz v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 856 · 1987
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2013 · most notably Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail (1992), Alberti v. Klevenhagen (1995)
32 federal appellate · 1 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. Swift & Co. · System Federation No. 91 v. Wright · Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · United States v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We note that a district court's decision to modify a consent decree in an ongoing institutional reform case is committed to that court's discretion because it is intimately involved in the often complex process of institutional reformation. It has the personal knowledge, experience, and insight necessary to evaluate the parties' intentions, performances, and capabilities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a less demanding standard for modification of consent decrees ... within the institutional reform arena.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to limit the state-wide prison population to 95% of TDC's maximum capacity,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.