593 F. Supp. 245 - Blevins v. Brew’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2003
3 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Davis v. Scherer · Cruz v. Beto · Lee v. Washington · Thaggard v. United States
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no other means [to be] available for maintaining prison security or discipline”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ramirez v. Reagan“necessitated by extreme or exigent circumstances involving racial hatred”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ramirez v. Reagan
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.