Timmerman v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 811 · 1975
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. (1980), Pulliam v. Allen (1984)
23 federal appellate · 8 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Pierson v. Ray · O'Shea v. Littleton · Procunier v. Martinez · Steffel v. Thompson
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conspired to deprive plaintiffs of their right ... to speak and write about the wrongs perpetrated upon them . We have no doubt that plaintiffs, even though they are inmates, have some first and fourteenth amendment rights to air their grievances .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cavey v. Levine
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.