Rowland v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
452 F.2d 1005 · 1971
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Procunier v. Martinez (1974), United States v. Philip Berrigan, in No. 72-1938, and Elizabeth McAlister Appeal of Elizabeth McAlister In (1973)
15 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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
Relies on United States v. Seeger · United States v. Ballard · Walker v. Blackwell · In the Matter of the Petition for Naturalization of Brenda Barbara Weitzman
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We reject as an intrusion of a prisoner's First Amendment rights the granting of possession of some [religious medallions] and not others contingent upon their meeting an official standard of religious orthodoxy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sutton v. Rasheed · Sutton“); Walker v. Blackwell, 411 F.2d 23 , 29 (5th Cir.1969) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sutton
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.