Doe v. Sparks’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Turner v. Safley · Procunier v. Martinez · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson · O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz · Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'mother, father, sister, brother, wife, husband, children.'”
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.