Hammer v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
570 F.3d 798 · 2009
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025
4 federal appellate ·
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 26 U.S.C. § 6700
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Pearson v. Callahan · Turner v. Safley · Bounds v. Smith
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The security justification that carried the day in Pell and Washington Post was that interviews with the press make celebrities of some inmates. This increases tensions within prisons (those who don't receive public attention may react with envy); and if some inmates use the press to disparage others (or their beliefs, or the organizations to which they belong), the tensions will be greater. More: the interviewed prisoners get swelled heads and 'tend to become the source of substantial disciplinary problems that can engulf a large portion of the population at a prison.' " (internal citation and quotation marks omitted) ). Thus, although the Lucasville riot occurred 25 years ago, it is reasonable for ODRC to fear that the leaders of the Lucasville riot, who already have and will continue to have "a disproportionate degree of notoriety and influence among their fellow inmates,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hanrahan v. Mohr“The experience of the Bureau accords with that of the California Department of Corrections and suggests that the interest of the press is often 'concentrated on a relatively small number of inmates who, as a result, (become) virtual 'public figures' within the prison society and gai(n) a disproportionate degree of notoriety and influence among their fellow inmates.' As a result those inmates who are conspicuously publicized because of their repeated contacts with the press tend to become the source of substantial disciplinary problems that can engulf a large portion of the population at a prison.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hanrahan v. Mohr“[T]o state the distinction is to furnish the justification: security.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hanrahan v. Mohr
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.