Wyatt v. Stickney

How courts have described this case

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

• ordering the defendants to implement standards set by the court to improve the conditions of a state mental hospital
• patients have a right to receive sealed general mail unless the treatment staff imposes a special restriction by written order
• bed, closet or locker for personal belongings, chair, and bedside table
• standards 18(A), 19(F) & (G), & 24
• rights of mentally ill and retarded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

105 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lynch v. Baxley
  M.D. Alabama· 1974-12-14· cited 207×
• Bayh v. Sonnenburg
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-06-12· cited 205×
• Ruiz v. Estelle
  S.D. Texas· 1980-12-12· cited 152×
• Barnes v. Dale
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1988-06-24· cited 146×
• Kenneth Donaldson v. J. B. O'connor, M.D. And John Gumanis, M.D.
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-04-26· cited 141×
• Wyatt v. Aderholt
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-11-08· cited 124×
• Romeo v. Youngberg
  Third Circuit· 1980-11-24· cited 109×
• New York State Ass'n for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Rockefeller
  E.D. New York· 1973-04-10· cited 104×
• Unida v. Volpe
  N.D. California· 1972-10-19· cited 96×
• Santiago v. City of Philadelphia
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1977-07-20· cited 93×
• Woe v. Cuomo
  Second Circuit· 1984-02-22· cited 87×
• Welsch v. Likins
  D. Minnesota· 1974-02-15· cited 82×
• United States v. Michigan
  Sixth Circuit· 1991-07-02· cited 82×
• Newman v. State of Alabama
  M.D. Alabama· 1972-10-04· cited 72×
• In Re W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-07-24· cited 67×
• Merlin Ohlinger v. Robert J. Watson, Administrator, Corrections Division of the State of Oregon
  Ninth Circuit· 1981-07-21· cited 65×
• Nazareth Gates, and United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. John Collier, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-12-05· cited 63×
• Davis v. Hubbard
  N.D. Ohio· 1980-09-16· cited 61×
• Halderman v. Pennhurst State School & Hospital
  Third Circuit· 1979-12-13· cited 59×
• Robinson v. Cahill
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1976-05-13· cited 50×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wyatt v. Stickney
  M.D. Alabama· 1971-03-12· cited 132×
• Wyatt v. Stickney
  M.D. Alabama· 1971-12-10· cited 38×