Brown-El v. Delo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that prisoner’s claim that he was denied his Eighth Amendment rights when he was served cold food was frivolous
• when “an inmate is deprived of privileges or placed in a special confinement status in order to punish him for past misconduct, then due process requires some kind of hearing beforehand”
• “We do not quarrel with the prison's need to segregate individual inmates from the general prison population for non- punitive reasons; for example ... where there is a threat to the safety and security of the institution”
• claim that cold food violated constitutional rights was “frivolous.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Charles Hamner v. Danny Burls
  Eighth Circuit· 2019-09-11· cited 166×
• Peoples v. CCA Detention Centers
  Tenth Circuit· 2005-09-07· cited 118×
• Damron v. North Dakota Commissioner of Corrections
  D. North Dakota· 2004-01-26· cited 9×
• Picard v. Pennsylvania Institutional
  D. New Hampshire· 1995-12-06

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wolff v. McDonnell
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 12,327×
• Bell v. Wolfish
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-14· cited 11,438×
• Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Institution at Walpole v. Hill
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-17· cited 4,010×
• Hewitt v. Helms
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-22· cited 3,877×
• Meachum v. Fano
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-25· cited 3,743×
• Brown-El v. Delo
  Eighth Circuit· 1992-07-10· cited 67×
• Jones v. Mabry
  Eighth Circuit· 1983-11-30· cited 62×
• Freitas v. Auger
  Eighth Circuit· 1988-01-26· cited 59×
• William Brown v. Gerald Frey, Captain Ronald Kennedy, J.P. Smith, Larry Bogan, Mike Bowersox and Missouri Dept. Of Corrections and Human Resources
  Eighth Circuit· 1986-12-24· cited 45×
• Rust v. Grammer
  Eighth Circuit· 1988-09-28· cited 36×