Mauro v. Arpaio’s Empirical Analysis
147 F.3d 1137 · 1998
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Turner v. Safley · Procunier v. Martinez · Roberts v. United States Jaycees · City of Houston v. Hill
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts are ill equipped to deal with the increasingly urgent problems of prison administration and reform. " Id. 10 [T]he problems of prisons in America are complex and intractable, and, more to the point, they are not readily susceptible of resolution by decree. Running a prison is an inordinately difficult undertaking that requires expertise, planning, and the commitment of resources, all of which are peculiarly within the province of the legislative and executive branches of government. Prison administration is, moreover, a task that has been committed to the responsibility of those branches, and separation of powers concerns counsel a policy of judicial restraint. Where a state penal system is involved, federal courts have . . . additional reason to accord deference to the appro priate prison authorities. 11 Id. at 84-85 (citations omitted). 12 To maintain the necessary balance between these two basic principles, we must apply a deferential standard of review to challenges regarding prison regulations and uphold the regulation "if it is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mauro v. Arpaio“The availability of 'obvious, easy' alternatives that could be implemented at a 'de minimis' cost [weighs] against the reasonableness of a regulation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“personal photographs, drawings, and magazines and pictorials that show frontal nudity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mauro v. Arpaio
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.