Juan G. Morales v. Wilbur J. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
489 F.2d 1335 · 1974
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1999 · most notably Meachum v. Fano (1976), United States v. Bailey (1980)
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Branzburg v. Hayes
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This statute may be read to require reasonable regulations which effectuate legitimate administrative objectives without infringing the first-amendment rights of prisoners. The statute certainly does not grant all the powers of an absolute censor to the department of health & social services.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, Except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, Shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meachum v. Fano“there is always the possibility that Morales during his period of parole will violate the terms of his conditional release and thus be returned to prison.”
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.