Ralph B. Carter v. Michael v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 433 · 1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2013
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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 · Bounds v. Smith · Younger v. Gilmore · Cruz v. Hauck · Cepulonis v. Fair
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is undisputed that inmates have a fundamental right of access to the courts. Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817, 828 , 97 S.Ct. 1491, 1498 , 52 L.Ed.2d 72 (1977); Wolf v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539 , 94 S.Ct. 2963 , 41 L.Ed.2d 935 (1974); Younger v. Gilmore, 404 U.S. 15 , 92 S.Ct. 250 , 30 L.Ed.2d 142 (1971). This right ‘requires prison authorities to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers by providing prisoners with adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law.’ Bounds, 430 U.S. at 828 , 97 S.Ct. at 1498 _ The essential feature of any program is that it be effective in providing inmates with the ability to file petitions and complaints with a court, thus providing those inmates with “meaningful access” to the judicial system.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“attorneys in the program do help inmates sort out potentially meritorious claims from those without a foundation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blake v. Berman
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.