Davidson v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
129 F.3d 700 · 1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2019
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Turner v. Safley · United States v. Salerno · Procunier v. Martinez · Alfaro Motors, Inc. v. Ward · Hodge v. Police Officers
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Stamps have some of the attributes of currency, and a limit on the amount that may be present in cells obviously furthers the goals of avoiding thefts and disputes over them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Goord“inmates might encounter delays in the processing . . . of high priority mail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Goord“deprived him of his First Amendment right to send outgoing non-legal mail,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Goord
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.