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James C. Wright v. Ruth Rushen

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Good law
Court
Ninth Circuit
Citation
642 F.2d 1129
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
71 of 71
Citing cases (total)
71

Status

Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. James C. Wright v. Ruth Rushen remains good law: all 71 flagged citations have been read, and none confirms adverse treatment. The citing opinions apply its rule requiring courts to examine specific prison conditions and its description of the basic needs protected by the Eighth Amendment.
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The nearby “abrogated in part” parenthetical repeated in many citing opinions concerns Toussaint v. McCarthy, not Wright.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

71 later cases cite James C. Wright v. Ruth Rushen; 71 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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