Adams v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.2d 483 · 1952
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably In Re Ferguson (1961), Campbell v. Beto (1972)
47 federal appellate · 3 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 Price v. Johnston · Platek v. Aderhold · Numer v. Miller · Sarshik v. Sanford
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * ii ¡s we]| recognized that prison authorities have the right of censorship of prisoners’ mail,1 As said in Price v. Johnston, 334 U.S. 266 , 285, 68 S.Ct. 1049 , 1060, 92 L. Ed. 1356 , ‘Lawful incarceration brings about the necessáry with-\ drawal or limitation^df many privileges and rights; a retraction justified by the considerations underlying our penal system.’ As this Court has said, it is not the function of the Courts to superintend the treatment and discipline of prisoners in penitentiaries, but only to deliver from imprisonment those who are illegally confined. Sarshik v. Sanford, 5 Cir., 142 F.2d 676 ; Platek v. Aderhold, 5 Cir., 73 F.2d 173 . This is, of course, not to say that a case could not arise where punishment or treatment could be deprivation of the prisoner’s rights.” (“ 1 Numer v. Miller, 9 Cir., 165 F.2d 986 ; Reilly v. Hiatt, D.C., 63 F.Supp. 477 ; Gerrish v. State of Maine, D.C., 89 F.Supp. 244 .”)”
4 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.