Knell v. Bensinger’s Empirical Analysis
489 F.2d 1014 · 1973
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably Thomas v. Pate (1974), Campbell v. Miller (1986)
20 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Preiser v. Rodriguez · Carafas v. J · Johnson v. Avery · United States ex rel. Miller v. Twomey · Gilmore v. Lynch
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he complete frustration of a prisoner's attempt to consult an advisor or use the prison law library (to aid in the challenge of the legality of his confinement in isolation during its pendency) may constitute an effective denial of access to the courts quite apart from the denial (of) the right to send mail to the court under the old regulation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he regulations currently in force at Stateville do in fact permit effective challenge of punitive isolation by inmates other than those who have retained counsel or are sufficiently learned in the law to challenge their confinement effectively without advice and without the tools of legal research.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether appellant can prove damages arising out of his denial of access to the courts during his 15 days in isolation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knell v. Bensinger
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.