McCarthy v. Bronson’s Empirical Analysis
906 F.2d 835 · 1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2019 · most notably McCarthy v. Bronson (1991), McFarland v. Leyh (1995)
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 28 U.S.C. § 753 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Preiser v. Rodriguez · Lanza v. Drexel & Co. · Royal American Managers, Inc. v. IRC Holding Corp. · Lovelace v. Dall · Branch v. Martin
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Subsection 636(b)(1)(B) was added in 1976 as part of a broadening of the authority of magistrates. Act of Oct. 21, 1976, Pub.L. 94-577, 90 Stat. 2729. The House Report does not explain the category 'prisoner petitions challenging conditions of confinement' but does refer to 'petitions under section 1983 of Title 42.' H.R.Rep. No. 1609, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 11, reprinted in 1976 U.S.Code Cong. & Admin.News 6162, 6171.... 40 We see no reason why a Magistrate with clear authority to hold hearings and recommend findings as to the unconstitutionality of continuing prison conditions may not perform a similar function as to specific episodes of unconstitutional conduct by prison officials. The phrase 'conditions of confinement' appears not to have been selected as a limitation to preclude episodes of misconduct, but rather as a generalized category covering all grievances occurring during prison confinement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Clark v. Poulton“of prisoner petitions challenging conditions of confinement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCarthy v. Bronson
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.