Washington v. Penwell’s Empirical Analysis
700 F.2d 570 · 1983
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably United States v. Stanert (1985), Lindquist v. Idaho State Board of Corrections (1985)
34 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Bell v. Wolfish · Edelman v. Jordan · Bounds v. Smith · United States v. Swift & Co.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If general legal services for prisoners were required by the Constitution, we might be able to enforce this provision, notwithstanding the state's protest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jeff v. Kempthorne G“The funding provision was not intended to bind the individuals, but rather the state, something it could not do under the Eleventh Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jeff v. Kempthorne G“[r]elief under Rule 60(b)(6) is extraordinary, especially where the judgment was rendered by consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stratman v. Babbitt
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.