Sabers v. Delano’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.3d 82 · 1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2018
4 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Bounds v. Smith · East Texas Motor Freight System, Inc. v. Rodriguez · Foster v. Center Township
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the lack of a library or the attorney's inadequacies hindered [his] efforts to proceed with a legal claim in a criminal appeal, postconviction matter, or civil rights action seeking to vindicate basic constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“efforts to proceed with a legal claim in a criminal appeal, postconviction matter, or civil rights action seeking to vindicate basic constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a plaintiff cannot merely allege a denial of access to a law library or adequate attorney, even if the denial is systemic.”
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.