Petrick v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
11 F.3d 991 · 1993
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Hatch v. Oklahoma (1995), Trujillo v. Williams (2006)
25 federal appellate · 4 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 Haines v. Kerner · Turner v. Safley · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez · 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees state inmates the right to 'adequate, effective, and meaningful' access to the courts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prisoner must do more than make a mere conclusory allegation of need for unspecified or unlimited materials”
3 later decisions 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.