Beauchamp v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
37 F.3d 700 · 1994
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Hammond v. Commissioner of Correction (2002), Caldwell v. Maloney (1998)
10 federal appellate · 9 district · 9 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Wolff v. McDonnell · North Carolina v. Pearce · Turner v. Safley · Rose v. Lundy
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here burdens are laid upon the exercise of constitutional rights by prisoners, the Supreme Court's current approach is to give very substantial latitude to the state's judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a prison regulation impinges on inmates' constitutional rights, the regulation is valid if it is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the actual running of prisons and the most practical considerations of discipline, security, administrative feasibility and cost.”
2 later decisions 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.