Gates’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. “`in some respects contractual in nature,'”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 890 F. Supp. 2d 696 - Chisom v. Jindal · 678 F. Supp. 2d 348 - Perry-Bey v. City of Norfolk, Va.

2. “and were sanctioned $10,000 per day for every day they were not in compliance. The court appointed the mediator to be a special master. The district court stayed the monetary sanctions so long as the prison officials complied with the special master's directives for implementation of the modified outpatient plan by the deadlines to be set by the special master. The special master was to report any failures by the prison officials to do what he said, when he said, and”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gates v. Shinn

3. “psychiatric care, is that the prison, and the state budget for the prison, remain under the continuing and largely unfettered supervision of the district court and its magistrate judge, mediator, special master, and experts, instead of the state political process and appointed prison administrators. 47 The vagueness of the psychiatric care standard is in striking contrast to other parts of the consent decree. For example, the decree requires the prison officials to”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gates v. Shinn