692 F. Supp. 248 - Mathis v. Bess’s Empirical Analysis
1988
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Gerstein v. Pugh · Wilson v. Garcia · O'Shea v. Littleton
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““all presently incarcerated indigent criminal appellants represented on appeal either by the Legal Aid Society of New York (“Legal Aid”) or by an 18-B attorney in the Appellate Division of the First Judicial Department of New York and whose appeals have either not been perfected within one year of the filing of a notice of appeal or not been decided within two years from such filing.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mathis v. Bess · Mathis v. Bess“STENOGRAPHERS (In charge of transcribing my trial minutes).’’ See Mathis v. Bess, 692 F.Supp. 248, 253 (S.D.N.Y.1988) (“the substance of the original pro se complaint ... was addressed to the inaction of the court stenographers”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the delay violates the constitutional rights of the members of the class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mathis v. Bess
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.