Vandelft v. Moses’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 794 · 1994
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012 · most notably Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey (1996), Dilley v. Gunn (1995)
33 federal appellate · 4 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 Bounds v. Smith · Honig v. Doe · Toussaint v. McCarthy · United Savings Ass'n of Texas v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Inc. · Sands II v. Lewis Adoc
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“specific instance in which [he] was actually denied access to the courts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Actual injury' is defined as a specific instance in which an inmate was actually denied access to the courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Lewis · Dilley v. Gunn“must show that the inadequate access caused him actual injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wood v. Avenenti · Casey v. Lewis
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.