Cornett v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
51 F.3d 894 · 1995
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Smith v. Shawnee Library System (1995), RK Ventures, Inc. v. City of Seattle (2002)
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Bounds v. Smith · Johnson v. Avery · Sloan v. Hicks
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts requires prison authorities to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers by providing prisoners with adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. U.S. v. California“right of access [to the courts] is guaranteed to people institutionalized in a state mental hospital regardless of whether they are civilly committed after criminal proceedings or civilly committed on grounds of dangerousness”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hydrick v. Hunter“pleading stage,” as that term is used here, does not encompass merely the complaint and the answer, but also includes the prisoner-plaintiff’s”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Silva v. Di Vittorio
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.