Hadix v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Immediate termination of prospective relief. — In any civil action with respect to prison conditions, a defendant or intervener shall be entitled to the immediate termination of any prospective relief if the relief was approved or granted in the absence of a finding by the court that the relief is narrowly drawn, extends no further than necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right, and is the least intrusive means necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Benjamin v. Jacobson

2. “The division among the Branches is preserved by our system of checks and balances. Where Congress passes a provision of law assigning power to one Branch, such that the authority and independence of another Branch is undermined, the provision should be struck down as contrary to the Constitution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 29 F. Supp. 2d 1267 - McClendon v. City of Albuquerque

3. “[a]ppropriate remedies with respect to prison conditions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Richard A. French v. Jack R. Duckworth, and United States of America, Intervenor-Appellant