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Michael E. Remmers v. Lou v. Brewer, Warden’s Empirical Analysis

475 F.2d 52 · 1973

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
October 1996
most recently cited

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 ·

220197319801990decided

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.

  1. “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 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.