Woods v. Daggett’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 237 · 1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2004
9 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Douglas v. People of State of California · Procunier v. Martinez · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · Johnson v. Avery
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . Nevertheless, while the constitutional claim is not wholly insubstantial, when we consider the circumstances of the maximum security institution the size of Leavenworth, and the risks involved if searches of materials sent to such numbers of inmates should not detect contraband, we [sustain] the policy in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolfish v. Levi
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.