Pepperling v. Crist’s Empirical Analysis
678 F.2d 787 · 1982
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably Thornburgh v. Abbott (1989), United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (1985)
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
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 Procunier v. Martinez · Pell v. Procunier · Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc. · Phillips v. Bureau of Prisons · Morgan v. Lavallee
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not the mere receipt of such photographs by a particular prisoner which provokes violence but rather the interest aroused in other inmates by the photographs. A less restrictive alternative would be to prohibit the prisoners from tacking these photographs up in their cells or otherwise displaying them to the ‘public.’ ” Pepperling, 678 F.2d at 790-91 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We note, however, that the blanket prohibition against the receipt of the publications by any prisoner carries a heavy presumption of unconstitutionality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owen v. Wille“Prison officials have no legitimate governmental interest in imposing their own standards of sexual morality on the inmates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brooks v. Seiter
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.