United States v. Kelton’s Empirical Analysis
791 F.2d 101 · 1986
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Busby v. Dretke (2004), Washington v. Meachum (1996)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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
Relies on Stroud v. United States · Wiggins v. Sargent · Smith Jaros v. Shimp · Meadows v. Hopkins · United States v. Wilson
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.
“It is apparent ... that the actions of the prison officials were justified in light of the legitimate objectives of the prison system. In Lyon v. Farrier, 727 F.2d 766, 769 (8th Cir.1984), this court held that, although prisoners retain some fourth amendment rights while in prison, these rights are limited by institutional security needs and the prisoner’s reduced expectation of privacy.”
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.