Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 685 FSUPP 636 - Knop v. Johnson

Knop v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
April 1999
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “MBP: 4 MB-Trustee: 2 MR: 5 MR-Trustee: 1 SPSM North: 3 SPSM South: 3”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “somewhat drastic step of mandating particular disciplinary actions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “a district court must impose the least intrusive remedy available,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.