Storseth v. Spellman’s Empirical Analysis
654 F.2d 1349 · 1981
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Ruiz v. Estelle (1982), Sands II v. Lewis Adoc (1989)
48 federal appellate · 8 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez · Pell v. Procunier · Johnson v. Avery
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those first amendment rights not inconsistent with their status as prisoners or with penological objectives of the corrections system.... [Challenges to prison restrictions that are asserted to inhibit First Amendment interests must be analyzed in terms of the legitimate policies and goals of the corrections system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Benny“[i]nmate writers may assist other prisoners in the preparation of, and filing of petitions for post-conviction relief. No authority authorizes them to engage in the practice of law by filing papers with the court as the inmate's legal representative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The state has the affirmative duty to provide constitutionally adequate access (to the courts), and bears the burden of demonstrating the adequacy of the chosen method.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ruiz v. Estelle
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.