Valiant-Bey v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.2d 1441 · 1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2007
6 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Procunier v. Martinez · Central South Carolina Chapter v. Martin · Bryan v. Werner
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.
“Absent claims of intentional delay, ... mere delay in delivery of prisoner mail, especially any delay that occurs over the weekend, is not unreasonable and thus fails to raise a constitutional question. "These are de minimis delays unavoidable in any large institution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watson v. Cain“allegations of deprivation of first amendment rights must be scrutinized carefully, and even conclusory allegations of constitutional violations may be held sufficient as a matter of pleading to call for the offering of supporting evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fallon v. Lockhart“the limitation of First Amendment freedoms must be no greater than is necessary or essential to the protection of the particular governmental interest involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McMaster v. Pung
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.