Iron Eyes v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
907 F.2d 810 · 1990
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Hamilton v. Schriro (1996), May v. G.h. Baldwin (1997)
41 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley · Pell v. Procunier · Price v. Johnston
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether there is a valid, rational connection between the prison regulation and the legitimate, neutral governmental interest used to justify it; (2) whether there exist alternative means for prisoners to exercise the constitutional right at issue; (3) the impact that would be caused by accommodation of the right on prison staff, inmates, and allocation of prison resources; and (4) whether any alternative exists that would fully accommodate the prisoner’s right at de minimis cost to valid penological interests.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quinn v. Nix · Losee v. Nix“[Ijssues of prison management are, both by reason of separation of powers and highly practical considerations of judicial competence, peculiarly ill-suited to judicial resolution. ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cotner v. Knight · Sisneros v. Nix“when a prison regulation impinges on inmates' constitutional rights”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Merritt-Bey v. Delo
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.