Wanninger v. Davenport’s Empirical Analysis
697 F.2d 992 · 1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2005
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Bounds v. Smith · Kershner v. Mazurkiewicz · Samuel Richard Harrell v. T. M. Keohane, Warden · Johnson v. Parke
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree with the Tenth and Third Circuits that jail officials do not necessarily have to provide a prisoner with free, unlimited access to photocopies of legal precedents in order to protect the prisoner's right to access the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Allowing inmates to pay for and receive photocopies of the legal materials required by the courts is part of the `meaningful access' to the courts that inmates are constitutionally entitled to.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A prisoner's right of access to the court does not include the right of free unlimited access to a photocopying machine, particularly when as here, there are suitable alternatives.”
1 later decision 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.