Johnson v. California’s Empirical Analysis
336 F.3d 1117 · 2003
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
February 2005
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Hudson v. Palmer · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Turner v. Safley · Pell v. Procunier
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he panel's decision ignore[d] the Supreme Court's repeated and unequivocal command that all racial classifications imposed by the government must be analyzed by a reviewing court under strict scrutiny, and fail[ed] to recognize that [the] Turner analysis is inapplicable in cases, such as this one, in which the right asserted is not inconsistent with legitimate penological objectives.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]bsent searching judicial inquiry into the justification for such race-based measures, there is simply no way of determining ... what classifications are in fact motivated by illegitimate notions of racial inferiority or simple racial politics.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A] prison inmate retains those First Amendment rights that are not inconsistent with his status as a prisoner or with the legitimate penological objectives of the corrections system”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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