In Re Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III (1963), Sostre v. McGinnis (1971)
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 98 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 Price v. Johnston · Everson v. Board of Education · Ex parte Hull · United States ex rel. Morris v. Radio Station WENR · Gospel Army v. City of Los Angeles
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is apparent that the Muslim beliefs in black supremacy, and their reluctance to yield to any authority exercised by `some one [who] does not believe in [their] God,' present a serious threat to the maintenance of order in a crowded prison environment. Even conceding the Muslims to be a religious group it cannot be said under the circumstances here presented that the Director of Corrections has made an unreasonable determination in refusing to allow petitioners the opportunity to pursue their claimed religious activities while in prison.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . [I]nmates of state prisons may not be allowed to assert the usual federal constitutional rights guaranteed to nonineareerated citizens. [Citing cases] Rather, the United States Supreme Court has recognized that: ‘Lawful incarceration brings about the necessary withdrawal or limitation of many privileges and rights, a retraction justified by the considerations underlying our penal system.’ (Price v. Johnston, 334 U.S. 266, 285 [ 68 S.Ct. 1049 , 92 L.Ed. 1356 ]; see also Tabor v. Hardwick, 224 F.2d 526, 529 .)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Certainly it cannot be said that the prison officials would be acting arbitrarily or unreasonably in withholding a version of any bible or other literature adapted by the Muslim Religious Group to support their doctrines of the supremacy of the black race and segregation from the white race. To so hold would be to compel the prison officials to permit inmates to purchase and disseminate in the prison literature advocating and encouraging the very conduct which the prison authorities may lawfully suppress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sostre v. McGinnis
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.