Barrett v. Belleque’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.3d 1060 · 2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2024
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 · Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc. · Thornburgh v. Abbott · Jeffrey Bradley v. Frank Hall
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is controlling law in the Ninth Circuit and elsewhere as applied to claims involving outgoing prisoner mail.” Barrett v. Belleque, 544 F.3d 1060, 1062 (9th Cir.2008); see also Abbott, 490 U.S. at 413 , 109 S.Ct. 1874 (”
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.