541 F. Supp. 21 - Kendrick v. Bland’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2003 · most notably Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson (1989), Hensley v. Wilson (1988)
32 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Gregg v. Georgia · Rhodes v. Chapman · Pell v. Procunier · Trop v. Dulles
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ACCESS TO THE COURTS Defendants agree to implement a plan for maintaining and operating the law library at both institutions [KSP and KSR] upon the advice and recommendations of the respective librarians at each institution and the respective member of the Office for Public Advocacy with the advice and consultation of a competent law librarian within three (3) months. At a minimum, the defendants agree to provide the following: Federal Materials 1) West’s Supreme Court Reports, or Lawyer’s Edition 1960 and forward; 2) Federal Second Reporter, 1960 and forward; 3) Federal Supplement Reports, 1960 and forward; 4) United States Code Annotated, West Publishing Company: (a) Index volumes (b) Constitution of the United States volumes (c) Title 18 volumes (d) Title 28 volumes (e) Title 42 volumes 5) Federal Practice Digest, Second Series; 6) Paperback edition — Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Evidence, Appellate Procedure and Title 28, West Publishing Company; 7) Paperback edition — Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Appellate Procedure and Title 18, West Publishing Company; 8) Shepard’s United States Citations; 9) Shepard’s Federal Second and Federal Supplement Citations. Kentucky Materials 1) Kentucky Revised Statutes; 2) Kentucky Digest, West Publishing Company; 3) Southwestern Report, 2d Series, Kentucky cases, entire series, for the years preceding the publication of S.W.2d, either Southwestern Reporter or the official reports of the Kentucky Court of Appeals; 4) ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kendrick v. Bland · May v. Coleman“The Bureau of Corrections encourages and agrees to maintain visitation at least at the current level with minimal restrictions. ... Defendants shall continue their open visitation policy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Court shall retain jurisdiction in this case until the plan submitted to the Court is fully implemented.”
2 later decisions 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.