Barlow v. Amiss’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.2d 896 · 1973
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2008
13 federal appellate ·
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 Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Cruz v. Beto · Cooper v. Pate · Enrique B. Andrade v. W. B. (Bill) Hauck, Sheriff
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the denial of free and unfettered communication between inmates and courts and attorneys may constitute a denial of federal constitutional rights”
2 later decisions 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.