Hawthorne v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
761 F.2d 1514 · 1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2008
11 federal appellate ·
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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Bounds v. Smith · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · United States v. Kubrick
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here Congress has provided no limitations period for a federal claim ... a court must borrow the applicable limitations period and tolling rules from the state”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“All prisoners ... have court enforced access to legal research materials or assistance from persons trained in the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Straub v. Monge“the benefit of the prisoner who in a custodial setting has been deprived of a constitutional right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Straub v. Monge
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.