McCord v. Maggio’s Empirical Analysis
910 F.2d 1248 · 1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Whitley v. Hunt (1998), Hernandez v. Velasquez (2008)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Gregg v. Georgia · Hewitt v. Helms · Procunier v. Martinez
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prisoner McCord was confined in an unlighted, windowless cell with only a small hole cut in the steel door for outside access. Prisoner McCord was confined to this cell for twenty-three (23) hours a day. He was allowed out of his cell for one (1) hour a day to exercise and take a shower. CCR was an old building in need of repair at the time Prisoner McCord was assigned to it. When hard rains occurred the roof of the building would leak and the sewer lines sometimes backed up. This would cause water build up in and/or human waste backing up in CCR cells including that of Prisoner McCord. Cells in CCR would also on occasion have water build up and sewage back up as the result of plumbing problems. The plumbing in CCR was in need of repair.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCord v. Maggio“[I]t is well settled that `[p]rison officials must have broad discretion, free from judicial intervention, in classifying prisoners in terms of their custodial status'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilkerson“Classification of inmates in Louisiana is a duty of the Louisiana Department of Corrections and an inmate has no right to a particular classification under state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilkerson
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.