Al-Amin v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.3d 1317 · 2008
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Mann v. Taser International, Inc. (2009), Moton v. Cowart (2011)
14 federal appellate · 1 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Hudson v. Palmer · Turner v. Safley · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“complexity of prison management, the fact that responsibility therefor is necessarily vested in prison officials, and the fact that courts are ill-equipped to deal with such problems.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First Amendment free speech right to communicate with his attorneys by mail”); Jones v. Brown, 461 F.3d 353 , 359 (3d Cir.2006) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nordstrom v. Ryan
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.