Codd v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
949 F.2d 879 · 1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2020
6 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Hewitt v. Helms · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson · Montanye v. Haymes · Board of Pardons v. Allen
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the conditions or degree of confinement ... within the sentence imposed....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowser v. Vose
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.