Ramer v. Kerby’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 1102 · 1991
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Forbes v. Trigg (1992), Howard v. United States Bureau of Prisons (2007)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Procunier v. Martinez · Barefoot v. Estelle · King v. Wells · Bartholomew v. Watson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]egitimate penological concerns include, but [are] not limited to, safety or correctional goals, expense, staffing requirements ... and the danger of harassment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Street v. Rakiey · Jackson v. Vose“permitting him to do so will not be unduly hazardous to institutional safety or correctional goals.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“irrelevant, cumulative, or otherwise unnecessary for ... a fair resolution of the matter”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vasquez v. Ley
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.