Brooks v. Buscher’s Empirical Analysis
62 F.3d 176 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2022
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Bounds v. Smith · Sloan v. Hicks · New Jersey v. New York · Murray v. Giarratano · Wiston XXIV Ltd. Partnership v. Balcor Pension Investors V.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the prisoner must prove that prison officials failed to assist in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers.... Second, he must show some quantum of detriment caused by the challenged conduct of state officials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lehn v. Holmes
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.