Green v. Baron’s Empirical Analysis
879 F.2d 305 · 1989
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2021
13 federal appellate ·
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 Bell v. Wolfish · Hutto v. Finney · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Griffin v. Hilke
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] minimal deprivation does not violate the Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for behavioral modification treatment so he could personally participate in his criminal trial represent[ed] a legitimate governmental objective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Baron“the issue of punishment turns on whether the deprivations were reasonably related to a legitimate governmental purpose”
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.