Harris v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 1232 · 1988
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Colon v. Coughlin (1995), Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999)
89 federal appellate · 11 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Gregg v. Georgia · Rhodes v. Chapman · Santoni v. United States · Alabama 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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Inmates cannot expect the amenities, conveniences and services of a good hotel; however, the society they once abused is obliged to provide constitutionally adequate confinement.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judges are not wardens, but we must act as wardens to the limited extent that unconstitutional prison conditions force us to intervene when those responsible for the conditions have failed to act.”
4 later decisions 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.