Nees v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 606 · 1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2002
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Wade · Bell v. Wolfish
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here might well be a violation of the right of access to the courts by refusal of contact with an attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Osborn v. Shillinger
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.