Porter v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.3d 348 · 2019
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3626 (§ 20409 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Russello v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Put simply, 'there is not a single published study of solitary or supermax-like confinement . . . for longer than 10 days . . . that failed to result in negative psychological effects.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perry v. Spencer“[a] considerable number of the prisoners fell, after even a short confinement, into a semi- fatuous condition . . . and others became violently insane; others, still, committed suicide”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perry v. Spencer“Issues that [the appellant] failed to raise in his opening brief are waived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.