Amatel v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis
156 F.3d 192 · 1998
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Alexander v. Hawk (1998), Mauro v. Arpaio (1999)
30 federal appellate · 9 district · 6 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
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“remote as to render the policy arbitrary or irrational.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“share[ ] at least a core with ideas that have a lineage of a few centuries, perhaps millennia, stressing the desirability of deferring sexual gratification, of sublimation of sexual impulses, of channeling sexual expression into long-term relationships of caring and affection, of joining eros to agape. The supposition that exclusion of pornography from prisons will have much of an impact in this direction may be optimistic, but it is not irrational.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waterman v. Farmer · Cline v. Fox“a regulation cannot be sustained where the logical connection between the regulation and the asserted goal is so remote as to render the policy arbitrary or irrational”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.