Morgan v. Montanye’s Empirical Analysis
516 F.2d 1367 · 1975
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Davis v. Goord (2003), Martin v. Kelley (1986)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Procunier v. Martinez · Mitchell v. W. T. Grant Co. · Robins v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven assuming that prison officials were responsible, we believe that the claim was properly dismissed, as this was the sole instance complained of where a portion of a letter was missing and, as indicated above, there is no indication that Morgan suffered any damage as a result of not receiving these papers.... Standing alone, the loss of these papers seems inadvertent and hardly the basis for a successful constitutional assault.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen we say there may be cases which will present special circumstances that would justify deleting material from, withholding, or refusing to mail communications with courts, attorneys, and public officials, we necessarily rule that prison officials may open and read all outgoing and incoming correspondence to and from prisoners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Golden v. Coombe“done all, and perhaps even more, than the Constitution requires.”
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.