Hohman v. Hogan’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2003
8 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 5003 · 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 · Bounds v. Smith · Douglas v. People of State of California · Procunier v. Martinez · Johnson v. Avery
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]hat the fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts requires prison authorities to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers by providing prisoners with adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law.” (Emphasis added.) 430 U.S. at 828 , 97 S.Ct. at 1498 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colbeth v. Civiletti““The operation of the Public Defender’s System serves well to preserve the plaintiff’s access to the Courts.” Hohman, supra, at 673 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colbeth v. Civiletti
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.