Samuel Richard Harrell v. T. M. Keohane, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 1059 · 1980
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Monmouth County Correctional Institutional Inmates v. Lanzaro (1987), Sands II v. Lewis Adoc (1989)
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 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
Relies on Bounds v. Smith · Twyman v. Crisp · Francis Snider v. All State Administrators, Inc.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] prisoner's right of access to the court does not include the right of free unlimited access to a photocopying machine, particularly when as here, there are suitable alternatives.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]easonable regulations are necessary to balance the legitimate interests of inmate litigants with budgetary considerations and to prevent abuse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mears v. Thomas · Penrod v. Norton“Bounds recognized that some delays in the preparation of legal papers are inevitable and that inmates not facing court deadlines might have to wait three or four weeks for their turn in the library.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.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.