Phillips v. Coughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2014
2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Procunier v. Martinez · Pell v. Procunier · Burgin v. Henderson · Monroe v. Bombard
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“least intrusive method available for satisfying a compelling penological interest ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lindsey v. Butler
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.