Sires v. Gabriel’s Empirical Analysis
748 F.2d 49 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Procup v. Strickland (1986), De Long v. Hennessey (1990)
9 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Bounds v. Smith · Howard v. King · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Wood v. Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce, Inc. · In re Green
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“were couched in overly broad terms, this could impermissibly infringe upon a litigator's right of access to the courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“remain very much the exception to the general rule of free access to the courts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sires v. Fair“petitioner has been a constant litigator”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. De Long v. Hennessey
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.