Golden v. Coombe’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2002
8 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Procunier v. Martinez
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court will order that (a) non-legal mail addressed to petitioners at the MCC may be opened and searched for contraband, (b) without probable cause or the recipient’s presence, but (c) with the firm understanding, to be enforced with rigor, that the contents are not to be read, except on a showing of good cause, and then only in the recipient inmate's presence.” Id. at 344 . 4 . We therefore disagree with the view that our Wolfish decision allowed incoming mail to be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“no clear statement by the Court of Appeals”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Davidson v. Scully
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.