Casey v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.3d 1261 · 1994
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey (1996), Dilley v. Gunn (1995)
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez · Hutto v. Finney
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ADOC prisoners in all . . . custody levels shall be provided regular and comparable visits to the law library.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] prisoner cannot adequately use the law library under restraint, including handcuffs and shackles,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]articular steps must be taken to locate and train bilingual prisoners to be Legal Assistants.”
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.