Marvin Lee Aikens v. Leo D. Jenkins, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
534 F.2d 751 · 1976
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2007 · most notably Thornburgh v. Abbott (1989), Guajardo v. Estelle (1978)
32 federal appellate · 4 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 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · O'Shea v. Littleton · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Miller v. California · 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Withholding the publication furthers “an important or substantial governmental interest unrelated to the suppression of expression;” and (2) “The limitation of First Amendment freedoms [is] no greater than is necessary or essential to the protection of the particular governmental interest involved.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“censorship of statements that 'unduly complain' or 'magnify grievances,' expression of 'inflammatory political, racial, religious, or other views,' and matter deemed 'defamatory' or 'otherwise inappropriate.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] prison inmate retains those First Amendment rights that are not inconsistent with his status as a prisoner or with the legitimate penological objectives of the corrections system. Thus, challenges to prison restrictions that are asserted to inhibit First Amendment interests must be analyzed in terms of the legitimate policies and goals of the corrections system, to whose custody and care the prisoner has been committed in accordance with due process of law.”
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.