Prison Legal News v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
238 F.3d 1145 · 2001
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Sorrels v. McKee (2002), Prison Legal News v. Lehman (2005)
27 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Anderson v. Creighton · Bell v. Wolfish · 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the regulation is rationally related to a legitimate and neutral governmental objective; (2) whether there are alternative avenues that remain open to the inmates to exercise the right; (3) the impact that accommodating the asserted right will have on other guards and prisoners, and on the allocation of prison resources; and (4) whether the existence of easy and obvious alternatives indicates that the regulation is an exaggerated response by prison officials.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“valid if it is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hargis v. Foster · Hargis v. Foster“not inconsistent with his status as a prisoner or with the legitimate penological objectives of the corrections system.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hargis v. Foster · Hargis v. Foster
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.