Goff v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
500 F.2d 395 · 1974
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that prisoners be granted 'reasonable access to the courts . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Corpus v. Estelle
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.