Jackson v. Elrod’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2005
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley · Procunier v. Martinez · O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz · Gaines v. Lane
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.
“to demonstrate a reasonable relationship between their blanket ban on hard-bound books, or their rejection of books from reputable suppliers, and any legitimate jail interest. The practices represent an exaggerated response to a minimal security risk; thus they violate the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Elrod“detainees should receive notification of rejection and be given an opportunity to object.... Thus, we hold the current policy [of non-notification] also violates the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Elrod“for alleged policies of barring detainees' receipt of all hard-cover books and of not informing the detainees of such rejections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Elrod
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.