Witherow v. Paff’s Empirical Analysis
52 F.3d 264 · 1995
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Nelson v. Pima Community College (1996), Washington v. Meachum (1996)
15 federal appellate · 13 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Turner v. Safley · Procunier v. Martinez · Thornburgh v. Abbott · Guajardo v. Estelle · Brewer v. Wilkinson
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'closer fit between the regulation and the purpose it serves.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, in neither case must the regulation satisfy a least restrictive means test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winson v. Marshall
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.