Tighe v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.3d 41 · 1996
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Jones v. Ml Greninger (1999), Johnson v. Rodriguez (1997)
7 federal appellate · 3 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 Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Olim v. Wakinekona · Lindsay v. Beneficial Reinsurance Co. · Woods v. Smith · Smith v. Maschner
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]risoners have no right to a particular prisoner's help in legal matters as long as the putative recipient's constitutional right of access to the courts is not infringed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Rodriguez“The inmate must produce direct evidence of motivation or, the more probable scenario, 'allege a chronology of events from which retaliation may plausibly be inferred.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to state a claim, an inmate must allege the violation of a specific constitutional right”
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.