Fortner v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

43 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[M]ost people have `a special sense of privacy in their genitals, and involuntary exposure of them in the presence of people of the other sex may be especially demeaning and humiliating.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Kastritis v. City of Daytona Beach Shores · Padgett v. Donald

2. “'whether, under the most favorable version of the facts alleged, defendant's actions violate clearly established law.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Powell v. GA Dept./Human Resources · Nolen v. Jackson

3. “(1) whether there is a valid, rational connection between the prison policy and the legitimate governmental interest asserted to justify it; (2) the existence of alternative means for inmates to exercise their constitutional rights; (3) the impact that accommodation of these constitutional rights may have on other guards and inmates, and on the allocation of prison resources; and (4) the absence of ready alternatives as evidence of the reasonableness of the regulation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 124 F. Supp. 2d 1099 - Johnson v. City of Kalamazoo · 127 F. Supp. 2d 855 - Wilson v. City of Kalamazoo