Casey v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
4 F.3d 1516 · 1993
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Barnett v. Centoni (1994), Keenan v. Hall (1996)
50 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 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. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Wolff v. McDonnell · Baker v. Carr · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc.
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exaggerated response to prison concerns.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the impact accommodation of the asserted constitutional right will have on guards and other inmates and on the allocation of prison resources generally”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.”
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.