Shaffer v. Saffle’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.3d 1180 · 1998
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably United States v. Kimler (2003), Kaemmerling v. Lappin (2008)
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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. § 1988
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · City of Boerne v. Flores · Hall v. Bellmon · Boling v. Romer
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“while obtaining DNA samples implicates Fourth Amendment concerns, it is reasonable in light of an inmate's diminished privacy rights, the minimal intrusion involved, and the legitimate government interest in using DNA to investigate and prosecute crimes”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Velasquez v. Woods“sex-related crimes, violent crimes, or other crimes in which biological evidence is recovered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shaffer v. Saffle
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.