Green v. Berge’s Empirical Analysis
354 F.3d 675 · 2004
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 7 district · 27 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Hudson v. Palmer · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn.
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the state's DNA testing of inmates is ultimately for a law enforcement goal, . . . it is not undertaken for the investigation of a specific crime”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hat is 'reasonable' under the [F]ourth [A]mendment for a person on conditional release, or a felon, may be unreasonable for the general population.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Collecting felons' DNA, like collecting their fingerprints, handwriting exemplars, and other information that may help solve future crimes (and thus improve the deterrent force of the criminal sanction) is rationally related to the criminal conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.