Leonard v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 683 · 1986
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2007
16 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Meachum v. Fano · Finney v. Arkansas Board of Correction · Campbell v. Cauthron · Little v. Norris
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“per se rule that all inmates must always be given one hour per day exercise outside their cells no matter what their status or the other circumstances of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“discourage disruptive behavior that makes an inmate unfit to circulate among the prison’s general population.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodgers v. Jabe“ordinarily be given the opportunity to exercise for at least one hour per day outside the cell,”
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.