Earnest Bach and Robert Pryor v. Joseph S. Coughlin’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 303 · 1974
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Howland v. Kilquist (1987), King v. Atiyeh (1987)
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Haines v. Kerner · United States v. Calandra · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Powell v. McCormack · North Carolina v. Rice
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, however, as in this case, a party intentionally does not appeal a part of judgment, he cannot, after the time for filing has elapsed, change his mind and appeal from that part of the judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“provided free and unlimited postage for correspondence with federal and state courts and the Department of Corrections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chandler v. Coughlin“a reasonable attempt to balance the right of prisoners to use the mails with prison budgetary considerations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gaines v. Lane
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.