Gibson v. McEvers’s Empirical Analysis
631 F.2d 95 · 1980
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Gutierrez v. Peters (1997), Harris v. Fleming (1988)
30 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Wolff v. McDonnell · Thomas v. Pate · Wartman v. Branch 7, Civil Division, County Court, Milwaukee County · Bryan v. Werner
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the record discloses that many, if not all, of plaintiff's documents were photocopied and that others would have been if he left them with the librarian. Since there was no showing that plaintiff was denied access to the courts by virtue of this regulation, summary judgment was justified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Franzen“The Constitution ... [does] not confer upon prisoners the right to call witnesses to present evidence when, as here, only lesser penalties were imposed, namely a fortnight's deprivation of movie and commissary privileges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Wyrick
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.