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Beville v. Ednie’s Empirical Analysis

74 F.3d 210 · 1996

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
July 2010
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2010

6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Thornburgh v. Abbott

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Recently, we held where a prisoner's access to a law library and alternative legal resources was denied for eighteen days, his right to access to the courts was not violated because the denial”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Barry v. Wilson Toon
  2. “Nevertheless, we have indicated that the length of incarceration without access to legal materials may affect[ ] whether a prisoner's rights were violated.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Barry v. Wilson Toon
  3. “there may be cases where a prisoner is denied access for such a short time that prejudice would have to be shown.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Barry v. Wilson Toon

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.