Woods v. O'Leary’s Empirical Analysis
890 F.2d 883 · 1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2018
5 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 Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley · Procunier v. Martinez · Pell v. Procunier · Cruz v. Beto
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Is there a legitimate governmental interest underlying the prison regulation? (2) Does the prisoner retain alternative ways of exercising the right in question? (3) What impact would accommodation of the asserted constitutional right have on guards, other inmates, and on the allocation of prison resources?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hether inmates were deprived of 'all means of expression' [is] an important consideration in measuring the reasonableness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] prison inmate retains those First Amendment rights that are not inconsistent with his status as a prisoner or with the legitimate penological objectives of the corrections system. Thus, challenges to prison restrictions that are asserted to inhibit First Amendment interests must be analyzed in terms of the legitimate policies and goals of the corrections system, to whose custody and care the prisoner has been committed in accordance with due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. George v. Sullivan
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.