United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably In Re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation. (2006), Caridad v. Metro-North Commuter Railroad (1999)
4 federal appellate · 4 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 · Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. · Nicholas v. United States · Adamson v. Bowen · Randolph-Sheppard Vendors of America v. Weinberger
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the IFRP program serves valid penalogical interests and is fully consistent with the BOP's authorization, under the direction of the Attorney General, to provide for rehabilitation and reformation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGhee v. Clark“Provided that the district court has applied the proper legal standards in deciding whether to certify a class, its decision may only be overturned if it constitutes an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“alleged coercive tactics used to collect fines”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGhee v. Clark
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.