365 F. Supp. 377 - Johnson v. Rockefeller’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably Turner v. Safley (1987), 378 So. 2d 7 - Rodriguez v. State (1979)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Boddie v. Connecticut · Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Trop v. Dulles
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Insofar as the deprivation of the right to participate in the ceremony of marriage can be considered as imposing punishment in addition to incarceration it is a penalty which is well within New York’s power to prescribe.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cohabitation, sexual intercourse, and the begetting and raising of children”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as provided in subdivisions two and three, a person sentenced to imprisonment for life is thereafter deemed civilly dead; provided, that such a person may marry while on parole, or after he has been discharged from parole, if otherwise capable of contracting a valid marriage. Such capability shall be deemed to exist where the marriage of a person sentenced to imprisonment for life has been terminated by divorce, annulment, or subsequent remarriage of a former spouse. A marriage contracted pursuant to this section by a person while he is on parole, without prior written approval of the board of parole, shall be ground for revocation of the parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Langone v. Coughlin
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.