Gilmore v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 20 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2006 · most notably Wolff v. McDonnell (1974), Bounds v. Smith (1977)
84 federal appellate · 20 district · 11 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 28 U.S.C. § 2242 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Shapiro v. Thompson · Douglas v. People of State of California · Johnson v. Avery
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Access to the courts' ... encompasses all the means a defendant ... might require to get a fair hearing from the judiciary on all charges brought against him or grievances alleged by him.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adequate means of obtaining the legal expertise necessary to obtain judicial consideration of alleged grievances cognizable by the courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Statements of the general rule differ in their tone, but nonetheless make it clear that prison rules must pass the basic test of due process reasonability, with that test being more or less stringent according to the character of the right taken from the prisoner. Gilmore v. Lynch, 319 F.Supp. 105 , 109 n.6 (N.D.Cal.1970), aff’d sub nom., Younger v. Gilmore, 404 U.S. 15 , 92 S.Ct. 250 , 30 L.Ed. 142 (1971).”
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.