Ross v. Blackledge’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.2d 616 · 1973
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Sweet v. South Carolina Department of Corrections (1975), Kahane v. Carlson (1975)
16 federal appellate · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Barnett v. Rodgers · Illinois Scientific Developments, Inc. v. Sirica · Brown v. Peyton · Abernathy v. Cunningham
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Their [Muslims’] request for “one full-course pork-free diet once a day and coffee three times daily” is essentially a plea for a modest degree of official deference to their religious obligations. Certainly if this concession is feasible from the standpoint of prison management, it represents the bare minimum that jail authorities, with or without specific request, are constitutionally required to do, not only for Muslims but indeed for any group of inmates with religious restrictions on diet.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Kahane v. Carlson““[W]e held that the state may only restrict a prisoner’s desire to practice religion ‘upon a convincing showing that paramount state interests so require.’ * * * Brown v. Peyton, 437 F.2d 1228, 1231 (4th Cir. 1971). . While the decisions of prison officials are entitled to considerable weight, they are subject to judicial reviews ‘to insure that the constitutional rights of prisoners are protected.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.