Thongvanh v. Thalacker’s Empirical Analysis
17 F.3d 256 · 1994
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Weiler v. Purkett (1998), Maldonado v. City of Altus (2006)
16 federal appellate · 2 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 Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley · Procunier v. Martinez · O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz · Thornburgh v. Abbott
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether there is a valid rational connection between the regulation and the legitimate government interest it purports to further; (2) whether the inmate has an alternative means of exercising his constitutional right; (3) the impact that accommodation of the inmate’s right would have upon others, including inmates as well as non-inmates; and (4) the absence of a ready alternative to the regulation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Conversely, prison officials have a duty to maintain security within the prison, and this may include reading inmates' incoming and outgoing mail, with the exception of legal mail.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cotner v. Knight · Berry v. Oswalt“have previously held that claims involving inmate mail-both incoming and outgoing-must be measured against the standard set out in Turner.”
2 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.