Johnson v. Parke’s Empirical Analysis
642 F.2d 377 · 1981
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Sands II v. Lewis Adoc (1989), Kershner v. Mazurkiewicz (1982)
12 federal appellate · 4 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 · Martinez v. Aaron · Gurule v. Wilson · Walker v. Hughes · Samuel Richard Harrell v. T. M. Keohane, Warden
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to the degree that it makes it very difficult or impossible for an inmate to satisfy the filing requirements of the federal courts”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen numerous copies of often lengthy complaints or briefs are required, it is needlessly draconian to force an inmate to hand copy such materials when a photocopying machine is available and the inmate is able and willing to compensate the state for its use. Allowing inmates to pay for and receive photocopies of the legal materials required by the courts is part of the 'meaningful access' to courts that inmates are constitutionally entitled to”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`The constitutional concept of an inmate's right of access to the courts does not require that prison officials provide inmates free or unlimited access to photocopying machinery.'”
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.