Sheets v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.3d 164 · 1996
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably United States v. Webber (2000), Prison Legal News v. Cook (2001)
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley · Procunier v. Martinez
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“carry no precedential weight ... [and] have no binding effect on anyone other than the parties to the action”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Like personal correspondence, a subscription represents the exercise of volition by both sender and recipient. The sender’s interest in communicating the ideas in the publication corresponds to the recipient’s interest in reading what the sender has to say ... We can perceive no principled basis for distinguishing publications specifically ordered by a prison inmate from letters written to that inmate for purposes of first amendment protection ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“First is whether the regulation is legitimate and neutral, and rationally related to the underlying government objective. Second is whether the prisoners have alternative means of exercising the right. Third is the impact accommodation will have on guards and other inmates, and on the allocation of prison resources in general. Fourth is the absence of ready alternatives.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Campbell
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.