Brown v. Schubert’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Goldberg v. Kelly · Alton A. Jones, Jr. v. Luther D. Robinson, M.D · 346 F. Supp. 1062 - Stewart v. Jozwiak
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . from censoring or interfering in any other way with said plaintiffs’ correspondence, except that the right to inspect mail for contraband shall not be abrogated; such inspection may only be accomplished, however, through visual and manual examination of the envelopes, boxes and other containers in which correspondence is received or intended to be sent, and such examination must be performed in the prisoners’ presence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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