Dunn v. Castro’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.3d 1196 · 2010
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pearson v. Callahan · Turner v. Safley
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“pris.oners do not have an.absolute right to visitation, [because] such privileges are necessarily subject to the prison authorities’ discretion, provided their administrative decisions are tied to legitimate penological objectives”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what [she] is doing violates that right.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to receive visits from family members, reasonable restrictions as evaluated under Turner are permissible. Id. at 1205 . In such cases, the question of how far the restrictions may go”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flynn v. Burns
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.