Braxton v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4042 (Prison Camera Reform Act of 2021)
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Goldberg v. Kelly · Gault · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · McKeiver v. Pennsylvania
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failed to prove that the Committee's determination was based on irrelevant evidence, and in particular failed to prove their contention that prison officials in the course of the disciplinary hearings considered letters written by the Plaintiffs to Congressmen and other governmental officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Braxton v. Carlson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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