Nordgren v. Milliken’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 851 · 1985
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Toussaint v. McCarthy (1986), Smith v. Maschner (1990)
36 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Bounds v. Smith · California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited · Johnson v. Avery
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are persuaded that we should not hold that the right of access to the courts requires more than the assistance of counsel through completion of the complaint for a federal habeas or civil rights action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Fourteenth Amendment due process claim based on access to the courts ... to apply further than protecting the ability of an inmate to prepare a petition or complaint.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by providing prisoners with adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.