Bruscino v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
854 F.2d 162 · 1988
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Samuel Lemaire v. Manfred Maass, Superintendent, Samuel Lemaire v. Manfred Maass, Superintendent (1993), Del Raine v. Williford (1994)
40 federal appellate · 2 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 · Turner v. Safley · Bounds v. Smith · Meachum v. Fano · Rhodes v. Chapman
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no question that conditions [in prison] deserve careful scrutiny, but they must be evaluated against the background of an extraordinary history of inmate violence and with proper regard for the limited competence of federal judges to micromanage prisons.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he handcuffing, the shackling, [and] the boxing of the handcuffs ... are reasonable measures in view of the history of violence at the prison and the incorrigible, undeterrable character of the inmates.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is the successor to Alcatraz as the prison designed to hold the most violent and dangerous prisoners in the federal system.”
2 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.