Rutherford v. Hutto’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
July 1993
most recently cited
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Procunier v. Martinez · Holt v. Sarver · 363 F. Supp. 194 - Holt v. Hutto
Most-quoted passages
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“[A] State has a sufficient interest in eliminating illiteracy among its convicts to justify it in requiring illiterate convicts, including adults, to attend classes designed to bring them up to at least the fourth grade educational level where their exposure to instruction does not affect them adversely in any significant way and where they are not punished simply because they cannot or will not learn.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. McLemore
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