Hooks v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.2d 1433 · 1985
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Knop v. Johnson (1992), Reese v. Fulcomer (1991)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Wolff v. McDonnell · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Bounds v. Smith · Douglas v. People of State of California
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Bounds refers to law libraries or other forms of legal assistance, in the disjunctive, no fewer than five times.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knop v. Johnson · Barbour v. Haley“is a far cry from constitutionally requiring the state to provide legal counsel for the imprisoned.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adequate assistance from persons trained in the law.”
3 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.