Jackson v. Procunier’s Empirical Analysis
789 F.2d 307 · 1986
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Archie v. City of Racine (1988), Jackson v. Cain (1989)
60 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]ecognition of the constitutional right of access to the courts ... long precedes Bounds, and has from its inception been applied to civil as well as constitutional claims.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Any deliberate impediment to access [to the courts], even a delay of access, may constitute a constitutional deprivation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right to sue and defend in the courts is the alternative of force. In an organized society it is the right conservative of all other rights, and lies at the foundation of orderly government. It is one of the highest and most essential privileges of citizenship ... granted and protected by the federal constitution.”
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.