Brown v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
419 F.2d 1308 · 1969
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
February 1976
most recently cited
19 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Murphy v. Houma Well Service · Huth v. Southern Pacific Co. · Brooklyn Union Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission · Adams v. Ellis
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The control of prison mail is a matter of prison administration.”
1 later decision 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.