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442 F.2d 912 · 1971

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
2
states following
June 1994
most recently cited

22 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably Leonhard v. United States (1980), David DeMATTEIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee (1975)

22 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

230197119801990decided

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 Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Sostre v. McGinnis · Moviecolor Ltd. v. Eastman Kodak Co. · Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp. v. Epstein · Donald A. Swan v. Board of Higher Education of the City of New York by Gustave G. Rosenberg, Its Chairman, George A. Pierson, and Margaret v. Kiely

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “was motivated at least in part by a recognition of the practical, as well as the legal, difficulties prisoners face in instituting and prosecuting suits.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Major v. Arizona State Prison
  2. “As to a person imprisoned, legal capacity to sue, if it exists, is only a theoretical right”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Miller v. Smith
  3. “was intended to apply even where a prisoner has the legal capacity to sue,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Jerome Rosenberg v. Raymond v. Martin

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.