Mosier v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
937 F.2d 1521 · 1991
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Lovelace v. Lee (2006), Abdulhaseeb v. Calbone (2010)
43 federal appellate · 12 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Turner v. Safley · Wisconsin v. Yoder · 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An infringement of a constitutional right is valid in prison if it is “reasonably related to legitimate penological objectives.” The four factors to consider in making the reasonableness inquiry are 1) whether a valid, rational connection exists between the prison policy and the legitimate governmental interest advanced as justification; 2) whether alternative means of exercising the constitutional right remain open to prisoners; 3) what impact accommodation of the asserted constitutional right will have on guards, other inmates, and the allocation of prison resources generally; and 4) whether alternatives exist that would accommodate'the prisoner’s rights at little cost to valid prison interests.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether 'the pleadings ... and admissions, together with the affidavits ... show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, what constitutes a reasonable opportunity must be evaluated with reference to legitimate penological objectives of the prison....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.