Smith v. Shawnee Library System’s Empirical Analysis
60 F.3d 317 · 1995
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Smart v. Ball State University (1996), Gentry v. Duckworth (1995)
53 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Turner v. Safley · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Bounds v. Smith · 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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sitting in a locked cell is less pleasant than getting the free run of the prison library,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not as unpleasant as being attacked by general population inmates”
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.