Wagner v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4082 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on McDonald v. United States · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Federal Power Commission v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · Quaker City Cab Co. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Landman v. Royster
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One of the rights sacrificed as inconsistent with institutional security is that of freely leaving the prison to engage in outside employment. Participation in an outside work release program is in this respect a privilege, not a right; it is comparable to the educational opportunities extended to certain inmates: a benefit which may be withdrawn without constitutional proscription.””
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.