Chandler v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis
926 F.2d 1057 · 1991
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey (1996), Strickler v. Waters (1993)
27 federal appellate · 6 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Bounds v. Smith · Hewitt v. Helms · Meachum v. Fano
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he right of a prisoner not to be confined in a cell at so low a temperature as to cause severe discomfort and in conditions lacking basic sanitation was well established in 1986.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“alleged deprivations are of a minor and short-lived nature and do not implicate general policies.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no relation between the alleged refusals of materials, depositions, telephone calls, mail, and even pen and paper for a proposed 'letter to the courts' and any legal proceeding which could have been affected by the refusals”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.