Rodriguez v. James’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 8 · 1987
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2015
10 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
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Edelman v. Jordan · Turner v. Safley · Procunier v. Martinez · Bolger v. Youngs Drug Products Corp.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`is valid if it is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lena v. Dubois · Johnson v. Goord“Because the damage claims are asserted against the defendants in their official capacities, they are barred by the eleventh amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCabe v. Arave“alternative[s] ... [that] fully accommodate the prisoner's rights at de minimis cost to valid penological interests....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fromer v. Scully
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.