Love v. Summit County’s Empirical Analysis
776 F.2d 908 · 1985
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Martin v. Tyson (1988), Abdulhaseeb v. Calbone (2010)
26 federal appellate · 8 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Bell v. Wolfish · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by providing prisoners with adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“did not show that he was denied access to adequate legal assistance to help him prepare and pursue his claims before the courts or that defendants in any significant way restricted that access”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an essential component of access to the courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.