Ruark v. Solano’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.2d 947 · 1991
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 20 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Mitchell v. Maynard (1996), Jenkins v. Wood (1996)
51 federal appellate · 20 district · 2 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Haines v. Kerner · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Bounds v. Smith
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] prisoner's constitutional right to access to legal resources is not conditioned on a showing of need.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]rison conditions violate the [E]ighth [A]mendment if they result in the 'unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain,' are 'grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime warranting imprisonment,' or result in an 'unquestioned and serious deprivation of basic human needs.' " Ruark v. Solano, 928 F.2d 947 , 949 (10th Cir.1991) (quoting Rhodes, 452 U.S. at 346-47. The Constitution "does not mandate comfortable prisons”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[T]here is no concept of strict supervisor liability under section 1983.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.