Solomon v. Zant’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 1579 · 1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2004
7 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Turner v. Safley · Procunier v. Martinez · Johnson v. Avery · Thornburgh v. Abbott
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n determining the reasonableness issue, the following relevant factors are generally considered: (a) whether a valid rational connection exists between the policy and the legitimate government interest; (b) whether an alternative means of exercising the constitutional right is available to the prisoner in spite of the policy; (c) whether, and the extent to which, accommodation of the asserted right will have an impact on other inmates, prison staff, or other prison resources in general; and (d) whether the regulation represents an “exaggerated response” to prison concerns.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pierce v. Smith“is not punishment for the purposes of an inmate's right to due process. If, on the other hand, the action exceeds the scope of a valid governmental regulation, it is punishment which cannot be imposed without due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]eciding whether an institution's action involves enforcement of a restriction or punishment ... requires that [the court] examine the officials' actions.”
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.