Ryland v. Shapiro’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 967 · 1983
Citation profile
108 federal appellate · 11 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Christopher Former Secretary of State et al. v. Harbury (2002), Bell v. City of Milwaukee (1984)
108 federal appellate · 11 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Warth v. Seldin · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defendants' actions could have prejudiced [their] chances of recovery in state court because the resulting delay would cause stale evidence and the fadingof material facts in the minds of potential witnesses.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is by now well established that access to the courts is protected by the First Amendment right to petition for redress of grievances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he right of access to the courts is basic to our system of government, and it is well established today that it is one of the fundamental rights protected by the Constitution.”
4 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.