Capps v. Atiyeh

How courts have described this case

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

• holding unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment the double-celling of inmates in cells of 51 to 68 square feet and the confinement of inmates in dormitories giving them an average of 43 square feet of space
• referring to Manual of Standards for Adult Correctional Institutions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rhodes v. Chapman
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-15· cited 6,761×
• Sterling v. Cupp
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1981-03-04· cited 206×
• Ruiz v. Estelle
  S.D. Texas· 1980-12-12· cited 152×
• Warren C. Nelson v. George Collins, John H. X. Washington v. Gerald A. Keller
  Fourth Circuit· 1981-09-14· cited 52×
• Hendrix v. Faulkner
  N.D. Indiana· 1981-10-21· cited 46×
• ATIYEH, GOVERNOR OF OREGON, Et Al. v. CAPPS Et Al.
  Supreme Court· 1981-02-04· cited 37×
• Capps v. Atiyeh
  D. Oregon· 1983-02-25· cited 31×
• Kane v. Winn
  D. Massachusetts· 2004-05-27· cited 25×
• Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Hodel
  D. Nevada· 1985-12-30· cited 21×
• Mallery v. Lewis
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1983-10-24· cited 18×
• Lareau v. Manson
  D. Connecticut· 1980-12-29· cited 13×
• Inmates of the Allegheny County Jail v. Wecht
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 1988-11-17· cited 12×
• Medcalf v. State of Kan.
  D. Kansas· 1986-01-27· cited 11×
• Thomas v. Baca
  C.D. California· 2007-09-21· cited 11×
• Stanwood v. Green
  D. Oregon· 1983-01-17· cited 9×
• Unnamed case
  Second Circuit· 1981-06-01· cited 1×
• Johnson v. McKaskle
  S.D. Texas· 1984-07-26· cited 1×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-08-03
• Taylor v. Wolff
  D. Nevada· 1994-09-17

Cites

34 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Wolff v. McDonnell
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 12,327×
• Bell v. Wolfish
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-14· cited 11,438×
• Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-01-21· cited 3,561×
• Cruz v. Beto
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-20· cited 2,756×
• Procunier v. Martinez
  Supreme Court· 1974-04-29· cited 2,649×
• Hutto v. Finney
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-15· cited 2,261×
• Trop v. Dulles
  Supreme Court· 1958-03-31· cited 2,182×
• Alabama v. Pugh
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 1,914×
• Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-23· cited 1,564×
• Nazareth Gates, and United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. John Collier, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-09-20· cited 349×
• Lawrence J. Holt v. Robert Sarver, Commissioner of Corrections
  Eighth Circuit· 1971-05-05· cited 245×
• Holt v. Sarver
  E.D. Arkansas· 1970-02-18· cited 230×
• Pugh v. Locke
  M.D. Alabama· 1976-01-13· cited 183×
• Battle v. Anderson
  Tenth Circuit· 1977-10-26· cited 138×
• Hayes Williams v. Edwin Edwards, Governor of the State of Louisiana, Defendants
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-03-15· cited 137×
• Gates v. Collier
  N.D. Mississippi· 1972-10-20· cited 106×
• Palmigiano v. Garrahy
  D. Rhode Island· 1977-08-10· cited 90×
• Unnamed case
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-11-07· cited 89×
• Battle v. Anderson
  E.D. Oklahoma· 1974-05-30· cited 79×