Harold Raymond Hooks v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
457 F.2d 502 · 1972
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
November 1985
most recently cited
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Cruz v. Beto · Johnson v. Avery · Cruz v. Hauck · Younger v. Gilmore · Groendyke Transport, Inc. v. Davis
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Does the state have an affirmative federal constitutional duty to furnish prison inmates with expensive law libraries or to provide inmates with professional or quasi-professional legal assistance?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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