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779 F.3d 882 · 2015

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
October 2022
most recently cited

5 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Turner v. Safley · Thornburgh v. Abbott · Overton Director Michigan Department of Corrections et al. v. Bazzetta et al. · Murphy v. Missouri Department of Corrections · Hamilton v. Schriro

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.

  1. “Cape Girardeau may seek to prevent harm that has yet to occur and, as a result, is not required to provide evidence of previous incidents of contraband reaching inmates through the mail in order to adopt a postcard-only incoming mail regulation.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “does not require actual proof that a legitimate interest will be furthered by the challenged policy”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “evidence short of an actual incident satisfies”
    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.