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390 F. Supp. 482 - Gates v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
1
states following
September 1987
most recently cited

18 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Procunier v. Martinez · Gates v. Collier · 349 F. Supp. 881 - Gates v. Collier

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “on the limited issue of the prison officials' authority to open and inspect, but not read, in-coming inmate mail of a non-privileged character, in the absence of the inmate”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “imposed by the Associate Superintendent of Custody”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.