Sostre v. Preiser’s Empirical Analysis
519 F.2d 763 · 1975
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2003 · most notably Hudson v. Palmer (1984), State v. Jeffers (1983)
21 federal appellate · 3 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Procunier v. Martinez · Pell v. Procunier · Shelton v. Tucker · Sostre v. McGinnis
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But even if the institutional purpose [in prohibiting beards] is legitimate and substantial, ‘that purpose cannot be pursued by means that broadly stifle fundamental personal liberties when the end can be more narrowly achieved.’ Shelton v. Tucker, [ 364 U.S. 479, 488 , 81 S.Ct. 247, 252 , 5 L.Ed.2d 231 (1960) ], Procunier v. Martinez, [ 416 U.S. 396, 413 , 94 S.Ct. 1800, 1811 , 40 L.Ed.2d 224 (1974) ].””
3 later decisions 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.