Williams’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Ahmad v. Department of Correction (2006), Charles Mack v. John Yost (2023)
4 district · 2 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 City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Turner v. Safley · Overton Director Michigan Department of Corrections et al. v. Bazzetta et al. · DeHart v. Horn · Fraise v. Terhune
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a valid, rational connection between the prison regulation and the legitimate governmental interest put forward to justify it”; (2)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a prison regulation impinges on inmates’ constitutional rights, the regulation is valid if it is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.” 482 U.S. at 89 , 107 S.Ct. 2254 . Applying Turner , the question here is whether there is a”
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.