Phillips v. Hust’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.3d 1070 · 2007
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2023
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Strickland v. Washington · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Parratt v. Taylor
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Policy: Within the inherent limitations of resources and the need for facility security, safety, health and order, it is the policy of the Department of Corrections to satisfy its legal obligation to provide inmates meaningful access to the courts by affording inmates reasonable access to a law library or contract legal services, and to necessary supplies for the preparation and filing of legal documents”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips v. Hust“in accordance” with the ODOC Administrative Rules governing “Legal Affairs (Inmate),”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips v. Hust“the touchstone of proximate cause in a § 1983 action is foreseeability.”
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.