Watkins v. Kasper’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.3d 791 · 2010
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Connick v. Myers · Hudson v. Palmer · Turner v. Safley · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Garcetti v. Ceballos
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“several Turner factors are relevant to the question of whether [an inmate's] speech is an activity protected by the First Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burns v. Martuscello
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.