Pearson v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 401 · 1991
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Navarro-Ayala v. Hernandez-Colon (1991), Old Republic Insurance Company v. Employers Reinsurance Corporation (1998)
15 federal appellate · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 455 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Bell v. Wolfish · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Plyler v. Doe · United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The equal protection clause seeks to ensure that similarly situated people are treated alike.... It ‘does not require things which are different in fact or opinion to be treated in law as though they were they same.... A legislature must have substantial latitude to establish classifications that roughly approximate the nature of the problem perceived.... [W]e thus seek only the assurance that the classification at issue bear some fair relationship to a legitimate public purpose.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The commissioner of mental health shall establish and maintain, subject to the jurisdiction of the department of mental health, a treatment center ... at a correctional institution approved by the commissioner of correction, for the care, custody, treatment and rehabilitation of [sexually dangerous] persons.... The commissioner of correction shall appoint such custodial personnel as may be required for such center. Such custodial personnel shall be subject to the control of the commissioner of mental health with respect to the care, treatment and rehabilitation of persons in their custody, but shall at all times be under the administrative, operational and disciplinary control of the commissioner of correction. The commissioner of mental health shall appoint to such center, in addition to the personnel appointed by the commissioner of correction, adequate personnel for the care, treatment and rehabilitation of such persons committed to their care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. King v. Greenblatt“there has been enormous improvement in physical facilities and in therapeutic treatments, but I cannot attribute those achievements to present counsels’ efforts in any meaningful way.... Similarly, it was the prescient and wise intervention of Judge Young with regard to the sequestration practice at the Treatment Center which has resulted in the interim policy now in effect ... neither of the plaintiffs’ counsel took part in the -formulation of the final, interim policy, or aided in its drafting. Judge Young did not adopt the suggestions of counsel, but was required, under pressure of time, to forge a sensible and workable course between the positions taken by both sides.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pearson v. Fair
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.