Knuckles v. Prasse’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Sostre v. McGinnis (1971), Landman v. Royster (1971)
34 federal appellate · 15 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Price v. Johnston · Terminiello v. Chicago · Schenck v. United States · Mandeville Island Farms, Inc. v. American Crystal Sugar Co.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the literature could be subject to inferences urging such defiance if not properly interpreted by a trained Muslim minister, I rule that it is not mandatory that the prison authorities make available to prisoners the writings. In the hands of the inmate who is not fully informed of the Black Muslim doctrine, as Minister Shabazz purports it to be--under such circumstances the literature could constitute a clear and present danger of a breach of prison security or discipline or some other substantial interference with the orderly functioning of the institution.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knuckles v. Prasse · William E. Knuckles, in No. 18761, Arthur L. McKee Isiah Green and Joseph Tillery v. Arthur X. Prasse, Commissioner of Correction, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Joseph R. Brierley, Supt. And A. T. Rundle and Clarence R. Wolfe and David N. Meyers, in No. 18829. Appeal of Arthur L. McKee in No. 18,762. Appeal of Isiah Green, in No. 18,763. Appeal of Joseph Tillery, in No. 18,764. James Washington, in No. 18,765 v. J. R. Brierley, Supt., in No. 18,830“so long as the doctrines espoused by the ministers are identical to those Minister [Jeremiah] Shabazz testified to during the court proceedings.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knuckles v. Prasse · William E. Knuckles, in No. 18761, Arthur L. McKee Isiah Green and Joseph Tillery v. Arthur X. Prasse, Commissioner of Correction, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Joseph R. Brierley, Supt. And A. T. Rundle and Clarence R. Wolfe and David N. Meyers, in No. 18829. Appeal of Arthur L. McKee in No. 18,762. Appeal of Isiah Green, in No. 18,763. Appeal of Joseph Tillery, in No. 18,764. James Washington, in No. 18,765 v. J. R. Brierley, Supt., in No. 18,830“However, to justify the prohibition of religious literature and the practice of a religion, prison officials must prove that the literature creates a clear and present danger of a breach of prison security. . . .”
3 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.