Rush v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.2d 455 · 1977
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Corgain v. Miller (1983), United States v. Burroughs (1981)
13 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 753
Relies on Bounds v. Smith · Britt v. North Carolina · United States v. MacCollom · O'Callaghan v. Sheldon · Moeck v. Zajackowski
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Because such access is impossible without a trial transcript or adequate substitute, the Supreme Court has nearly uniformly required that the prosecuting sovereignty provide trial records to inmates unable to buy them. ‘The only cases that have rejected indigent defendants’ claims to transcripts have done so either because an adequate alternative was available but not used, Britt v. North Carolina, 404 U.S. 226 [, 92 S.Ct. 431 , 30 L.Ed.2d 400 ] ... (1971), or because the request was plainly frivolous and a prior opportunity to obtain a transcript was waived. United States v. MacCollom, 426 U.S. 317 [, 96 S.Ct. 2086 , 48 L.Ed.2d 666 ] ... (1976).’ Bounds v. Smith, supra, 430 U.S. at 822 n. 8[, 97 S.Ct. at 1495 n. 8] ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Denying access to court files to prisoners, given the statutory inspection rights granted by 28 U.S.C. § 753 (b), works an invidious discrimination which cannot pass muster under the equal protection prégnant of the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause when the important substantive constitutional right of access to the courts is implicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The original notes or other original records and the copy of the transcript in the office of the clerk shall be open during office hours to inspection by any person without charge.”
1 later decision 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.