Morgan v. Lavallee’s Empirical Analysis
526 F.2d 221 · 1975
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2019 · most notably Thornburgh v. Abbott (1989), Guajardo v. Estelle (1978)
30 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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 Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · United States v. O'Brien · Preiser v. Rodriguez · 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before the court below may relinquish its § 1983 jurisdiction it must, on the most narrow reading of the cases, be positively assured — it may not presume — that there are speedy, sufficient and readily available administrative remedies remaining open to pursue, an assurance certainly not attainable on this record.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“receipt of [a] publication would constitute a threat to prison security or order or the inmate's own rehabilitation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“First Amendment rights to hold and express beliefs and receive information are entitled to 'special solicitude.'”
1 later decision 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.