Ward v. Kort’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.2d 856 · 1985
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably King v. Atiyeh (1987), Knop v. Johnson (1992)
18 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Bounds v. Smith · Rhodes v. Chapman · Johnson v. Avery · Ramos v. Lamm
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is 'protecting the ability of an inmate to prepare a petition or complaint'.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carper v. DeLand“to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers”
1 later decision 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.