Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2021
3 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Turner v. Safley · Farrar v. Hobby · Procunier v. Martinez · Pell v. Procunier · O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the regulation or practice must further an important or substantial interest unrelated to the suppression of expression. Where ... prison administrators draw distinctions between publications solely on the basis of their potential implications for prison security, the regulations are ‘neutral’ in the technical sense in which we meant and used that term in Timer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mauro v. Arpaio“Where `other avenues' remain available for the exercise of the asserted right, courts should be particularly conscious of the `measure of judicial deference owed to corrections officials . . . in gauging the validity of the regulation.' " Id. (citations omitted). 25 In applying this factor, "the right in question must be viewed sensibly and expansively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mauro v. Arpaio“and legal and religious materials, in violation of the First Amendment. Prison regulations which restrict an inmate's access to publications are valid under the Constitution if”
1 later decision 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.