Morrow v. Harwell’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.2d 619 · 1985
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Eason v. Thaler (1996), Green v. McKaskle (1986)
38 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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. § 2201
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Bounds v. Smith
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“suffer for lack of internal definition and prove far easier to state than to apply,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the absence of some sort of direct legal assistance, ..., the inmates must be given access to a library....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Bounds explained that for access to be meaningful, post-filing needs, such as the research tools necessary to effectively rebut authorities cited by an adversary in responsive pleadings should be met.”
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.