Gregory v. Auger’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.2d 287 · 1985
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Stephen L. Ustrak, Cross-Appellant v. James W. Fairman, Cross-Appellee (1986), Hill v. Blackwell (1985)
21 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Procunier v. Martinez · Pell v. Procunier · Grady v. Wilken
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could properly have established mail policies far more restrictive than this,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'have available sanctions that impose incremental disadvantages on those already imprisoned.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cellblock fires have been eliminated entirely ... by new regulations prohibiting inmates from possessing matches.”). Neither expert testified about fires in administrative segregation in Alabama prisons. 10 . See Tr.-l at 95 (According to plaintiffs expert, fire safety is considerably less of a problem in administrative segregation than in the general population.). 11 . One other court in Alabama has ruled in an unpublished opinion that Regulation 433’s ban on subscription publications is constitutional under Turner because it was”
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.