Holloway v. Dobbs’s Empirical Analysis
715 F.2d 390 · 1983
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Strickler v. Waters (1993), Glick v. Koenig (1985)
19 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Foman v. Davis · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Texas v. Louisiana · Mills v. Alabama
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all of [the prisoner's] legal materials were located and ... he was given complete access to them”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“interference with or infringement of the prisoner's constitutional right of access to the courts”
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.