Michael E. Remmers v. Lou v. Brewer, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
475 F.2d 52 · 1973
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 1996 · most notably Willis v. Ciccone (1974), Robert O. McDonnell Etc. v. Charles L. Wolff, Jr., Etc., Robert O. McDonnell Etc. v. Charles L. Wolff, Jr., Etc. (1973)
28 federal appellate ·
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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Robins v. United States · Sostre v. McGinnis · McNeil v. Director, Patuxent Institution · Landman v. Royster
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An evidentiary hearing should be held in this ease to determine (1) what the prison rules and practice are in regard to expression and publication of prisoner’s view points; (2) whether those rules and practice are in derogation of the first amendment rights of the prisoners; and (3) if the rules and practice are constitutionally permissible, whether they are correctly applied to Remmers in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Hartness
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.