Leonard v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 370 · 1995
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Vietchau Nguyen v. United States (1997), Sheldon v. Hundley (1996)
20 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Heck v. Humphrey · Connick v. Myers · Turner v. Safley · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Verbal Abuse: An inmate commits verbal abuse when the inmate subjects another person to abusive or defamatory language, remarks, or gestures, in writing or orally, and includes insolence or disrespect to another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Risdal v. State“All inmates know their mail can be read by prison officials....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Beville v. Ednie
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.