Gittens v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2008
1 district ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez · Quern v. Jordan
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he number of actions filed by the plaintiff as well as the avalanche of papers submitted by plaintiff in the instant suit indicate that the procedures followed by the defendants have been sufficient to provide plaintiff with meaningful access to the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gittens v. Sullivan
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.