Pryor v. Brennan’s Empirical Analysis
914 F.2d 921 · 1990
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Abdul-Akbar v. McKelvie (2001), Roller v. Gunn (1997)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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. § 4105 · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Plyler v. Doe
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the classification drawn by the statute is rationally related to a legitimate state interest.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the well-being of the prisoner or [to] relieve overcrowding or unhealthful conditions in the institution where such prisoner is confined, or for other reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fields v. Keohane
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.