Cepulonis v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
732 F.2d 1 · 1984
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Lindquist v. Idaho State Board of Corrections (1985), Campbell v. Miller (1986)
24 federal appellate · 11 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 Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez · Twyman v. Crisp · Williams v. Leeke · Cruz v. Hauck
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law,' not both.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is unrealistic to expect a prisoner to know in advance exactly what materials he needs to consult”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Assuming without deciding that a showing of prejudice is required”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Messere v. Fair
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.