Wilkinson v. Skinner’s Empirical Analysis
462 F.2d 670 · 1972
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2006 · most notably Procunier v. Martinez (1974), Procunier v. Navarette (1978)
21 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on WILWORDING Et Al. v. SWENSON, WARDEN · Sostre v. McGinnis · Federal Power Commission v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · Richardson v. Wright · Wright v. McMann
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to mail to and from counsel, this court had already made it very clear that prison officials who would interfere with first amendment rights bear a heavy burden to show abuse in terms of transmittal of contraband or the laying of plans for some unlawful scheme.” Wilkinson v. Skinner, 462 F.2d 670, 671 (2 Cir., 1972) (citations omitted),.”
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.