Weiler v. Purkett’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.3d 1047 · 1998
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Moran v. Clarke (2002), Murphy v. Missouri Department of Corrections (2004)
37 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
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 Anderson v. Creighton · Wolff v. McDonnell · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the government from engaging in conduct that shocks the conscience or interferes with rights implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'truly irrational,' that is, 'something more than ... arbitrary, capricious, or in violation of state law.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“similarly situated classes of inmates are treated differently, and that this difference in treatment bears no rational relation to any legitimate penal interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips v. Norris
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.