James v. Quinlan’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.2d 627 · 1989
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 11 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Tillman v. Lebanon County Correctional Facility (2000), Reynolds v. Wagner (1997)
22 federal appellate · 11 district · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 3013 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 5 U.S.C. § 500 · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Turner v. Safley · Hewitt v. Helms · Montanye v. Haymes · Frances E. Porcher, Etc. v. Mary E. Brown, Etc.
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Inmate Financial Responsibility Program would appear to be related to a legitimate penological interest in encouraging inmates to rehabilitate themselves by developing a sense of financial responsibility. Therefore, even if plaintiffs had established a the existence of a constitutional right in their Federal Prison Industries job assignments, it would not be violated by the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reynolds v. Wagner“[W]hen a prison regulation impinges on inmates’ constitutional rights, the regulation is valid if it is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests. In our view, such a standard is necessary if prison administrators,' and not the courts, are to make the difficult judgments concerning institutional operations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reynolds v. Wagner
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.