Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Farmer v. Brennan (1994), Hallett v. Morgan (2002)
23 federal appellate · 11 district · 4 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
Relies on Katz v. United States · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Estelle v. Gamble · Graham v. Connor · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prisoners' legitimate expectations of bodily privacy from persons of the opposite sex are extremely limited”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Framers were familiar from their wartime experience of British prisons with the kind of cruel punishment administered by a warden with the mentality of a Captain Bligh. But they were also familiar with the cruelty that came from bureaucratic indifference to the conditions of confinement. The Framers understood that cruel and unusual punishment can be administered by the failure of those in charge to give heed to the impact of their actions on those within their care.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“For example, in Grummett v. Rushen, 779 F.2d 491 (9th Cir.1985), this court considered the constitutionality of pat searches performed by female guards on male prisoners. We concluded that the inmates had not shown sufficient evidence of pain to make out a cognizable Eighth Amendment claim. Id. at 493 n. 1. Nothing in Grummett indicates that the men had particular vulnerabilities that would cause the cross- gender clothed body searches to exacerbate symptoms of pre-existing mental conditions. Indeed, in contrast to this case, nothing in Grummett indicates that the male prisoners had experienced or would be likely to experience any psychological trauma as a result of the searches. The record in this case supports the postulate that women experience unwanted intimate touching by men differently from men subject to comparable touching by women.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Somers v. Thurman
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.