Crofton v. Roe’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.3d 957 · 1999
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Sorrels v. McKee (2002), Patrick Hugh Morrison v. Frank Hall Director of the Oregon Department of Corrections (2001)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 1702
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley · Thornburgh v. Abbott · Rothman v. Hospital Service · Abex Corporation v. Ski's Enterprises, Inc. And United States of America v. Walton Shim and Sandra Shim
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The district court cogently explained why it found each of the interests allegedly furthered by the policy to be unavailing. First, the court found that prohibiting gift publications does not reasonably relate to legitimate concerns about fire hazards and storage space, because other prison regulations limit the number of books an inmate may possess. Second, the court found that the regulation does not reasonably relate to the valid penological interest in the prevention of contraband, because the prison offered ‘no rational distinction between die risk of contraband if an inmate orders a publication directly from die publisher or if an inmate’s family member orders a publication directly from the publisher.’ Third, the court rejected the state’s position that a complete prohibition on gift publications is necessary to ensure the efficiency of prison operations, because the prison could instead regulate the number of gift publications that inmates could receive. The court also observed the prison had placed no limit on the number of publications an inmate could order so long as storage limitations were not exceeded. Finally, the court rejected the state’s position that the regulation reasonably relates to the legitimate penological concern of strong-arming. The court noted that the state offered absolutely no specific facts or explanation to support its argument. Moreover, the court found the state’s argument weakened by its allowance of family and friends of inmates to send”
1 later decision 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.