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35 F.3d 1081 · 1994

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
July 2020
most recently cited

15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Kensu v. Haigh (1996), Amatel v. Reno (1998)

15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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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

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Wolff v. McDonnell · Turner v. Safley · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “First, there must be a valid, rational connection between the prison regulation and the legitimate governmental interest put forward to justify it.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “'effectively chills access to a governmental entity that is intimately related to the administration of justice,'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the regulation is unconstitutional, and the other factors do not matter.”
    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.