Simkins v. Bruce’s Empirical Analysis
406 F.3d 1239 · 2005
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Wright v. City of Philadelphia (2005), Cohen v. Longshore (2010)
15 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Brosseau v. Haugen
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must show that non-delivery of his legal mail 4 resulted in `actual injury' by `frustrat[ing],' `imped[ing],' or `hinder[ing] his efforts to pursue a legal claim.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where, for example, the underlying case was adversely decided on the basis of a deficiency logically and practically unrelated to the impediment created by the right-of-access defendants, courts have held that the plaintiff has suffered no actual injury associated with their constitutional misconduct. See, e.g., Deleon v. Doe, 361 F.3d 93, 94 (2d Cir.2004) (holding plaintiff had not shown actual injury resulting from delay caused by interference with mail where prior case was not dismissed for his untimely submission of materials but on the merits after consideration of those materials).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when access to courts is impeded by mere negligence, ... no constitutional violation occurs”). Here, Duprey has alleged that Park acted with more than negligence regarding the lost audio. In the Complaint, for example, Duprey puts the word”
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.