Morales v. Turman’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Spain v. Procunier (1979), Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. v. Capece (1998)
55 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMorales v. Turman (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Baxter v. Palmigiano · Phillips v. United States · Gonzalez v. Automatic Employees Credit Union · Morales v. Turman
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not a measure of broad social policy to be construed with great liberality, but ... an enactment technical in the strict sense of the term and to be applied as such.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not mention or challenge any rule or regulation of the Authority; nor (does) it seek an injunction against the enforcement of any identified rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spain v. Procunier“generalized, unwritten practices of administration”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spain v. Procunier
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.