Brewer v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
3 F.3d 816 · 1993
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Eason v. Thaler (1996), Conkling v. Turner (1994)
56 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 · Anderson v. Creighton · Wolff v. McDonnell · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[w]hile the precise contours of a prisoner's right of access to the courts remain somewhat obscure, the Supreme Court has not extended this right to encompass more than the ability of an inmate to prepare and transmit a necessary legal document to a court.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We must first emphasize that the Supreme Court in Thornburgh made it clear that a distinction still exists between incoming prison mail and outgoing prison mail. But that distinction revolves around the differing penological concerns with respect to outgoing and incoming mail. Specifically, the Court recognized that “[t]he implications of outgoing correspondence for prison security are of categorically lesser magnitude than the implications of incoming materials.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Samford v. Dretke“Thornburgh must be read as modifying ... Guajardo ... in regard to prison regulations or practices which deal with prisoner mail. That is, in determining the constitutional validity of prison practices that impinge upon a prisoner’s rights with respect to mail, the appropriate inquiry is whether the practice is reasonably related to a legitimate penological interest.”
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.