352 F. Supp. 163 - Hooks v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1994 · most notably 17 Cal. 3d 908 - Payne v. Superior Court (1976), Adams v. Carlson (1973)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Johnson v. Avery · Royall · Smith v. Bennett
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Does the state have affirmative federal constitutional duty to furnish prison inmates with expensive law libraries or to provide inmates with professional or quasi-professional legal assistance?” Id. at 165 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since the basic purpose of the writ is to enable those unlawfully incarcerated to obtain their freedom, it is fundamental that access of prisoners to the courts for the purpose of presenting their complaints may not be denied or obstructed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he constitutional protection of access to the courts ... includes access to all courts, both state and federal, without regard to the type of petition or relief sought.”
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.