Hill v. Blackwell’s Empirical Analysis
774 F.2d 338 · 1985
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Kent v. Johnson (1987), Hamilton v. Schriro (1996)
45 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Hewitt v. Helms · Procunier v. Martinez · Pell v. Procunier
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'In sum, there must be [a] mutual accommodation between institutional needs and objectives and the provisions of the Constitution that are of general application.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“could create a potential threat to a legitimate penological objective.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the prisoner's right must yield to the prison regulation.”
2 later decisions 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.