Bell-Bey v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.3d 832 · 1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2014
5 federal appellate ·
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 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Malley v. Briggs
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the official's inspection [wa]s limited to scanning legal mail for docket numbers, case title, requests for documents, et cetera; 2) the inspection [wa]s conducted in the prisoner's presence in his cell; and 3) the prisoner [could] seal his mail after the inspection [wa]s completed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berry v. Oswalt“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. Jones v. Caruso“further an important or substantial government interest unrelated to the suppression of expression”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Caruso
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.