Johnson v. California’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “refute[] a commonsense connection between a legitimate objective and a prison regulation, ... the state must present enough counter-evidence to show that the connection is not so `remote as to render the policy arbitrary or irrational.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ashker v. California Department Of Corrections

2. “When accommodation of an asserted right will have a significant `ripple effect' on fellow inmates or on prison staff, courts should be particularly deferential to the informed discretion of corrections officials.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnson v. California

3. “use of race [by the California Department of Corrections] in making initial housing assignments constitute[d] an impermissible racial classification afoul of the Equal Protection Clause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walker v. Gomez