Smith Jaros v. Shimp’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 423 · 1977
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Wolfish v. Levi (1978), State v. Wiley (2002)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Katz v. United States · Wolff v. McDonnell · Roe v. Wade · Procunier v. Martinez · Cohen v. California
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We may take judicial notice of the fact that an opportunity for secret and lengthy communication between a detainee and his friends or relatives would substantially enlarge his opportunity for successful escape. We have no doubt that over the course of time some persons would take advantage of that opportunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if conflict between the state's interest in jail security and the civil liberties of the detainees cannot be avoided or limited by reasonable means, the latter must yield.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We may assume that the defendants' practice would be unconstitutional if the interest in jail security could be protected by less burdensome means.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.