Franklin v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
203
cited by 203 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
8
states following
February 2011
most recently cited
67 federal appellate · 11 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 203 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2011 · most notably Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex (1979), Sellars v. Procunier (1981)
67 federal appellate · 11 district · 45 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.
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.