Timm’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Norman Charles Oliver v. Wayne Scott, et al. (2002), Johnson v. Phelan (1995)
10 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Hudson v. Palmer · Turner v. Safley · Herrmann v. United States · Michenfelder v. Sumner
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such a balancing act is an exceedingly complex task, and not one easily undertaken by the courts, whose expertise in the imperatives of institutional security is slight and in no way approaches that of the professional administrators charged with the awesome task of running our prisons.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nichols v. Nix · Sisneros v. Nix“a minimal restriction such as the Unit 5 gender-based staffing restriction does not deprive female employees of any employment opportunities”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“staffing restriction does not violate Title VII”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.