Wolfel v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
707 F.2d 932 · 1983
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Berryman v. Rieger (1998), Moore v. Kuka Welding Systems & Robot Corp. (1999)
38 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Carey v. Piphus · Procunier v. Martinez · Pell v. Procunier · Gomez v. Toledo · Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union, Inc.
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.
“a prison inmate retains those First Amendment rights that are not inconsistent with his status as a prisoner or with the legitimate penalogical [sic] objectives of the corrections system.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“subject[ ] to discipline merely because he complained. This was an impermissible abridgement of his right to seek redress of grievances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““unfounded complaints or charges against staff, members of the institution with malicious intent.””
3 later decisions 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.