Tyrone Green, Cross-Appellants v. William T. (Billy) Ferrell, Etc., Cross- Moses Belton, Etc., Cross-Appellant v. William T. Ferrell, Etc., Cross-Appellees’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 765 · 1986
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Willie Berry Jr v. Joseph Brady (1999), Peterkin H v. Jeffes H (1988)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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. § 636
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Bounds v. Smith · Hewitt v. Helms
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that the bookmobile checkout system, accompanied by circumscribed assistance from law students, does not meet the Bounds requirement. In the absence of some sort of direct legal assistance, which need not be by trained lawyers, the inmates must be given access to a library as required in Bounds . That access is not met by a system allowing a prisoner to cheek out books though a weekly bookmobile. The Federal Supplement, the Federal Reporter, and the Supreme Court Reporter today consist of a total of approximately fifteen hundred volumes. Even a quick research project by a trained lawyer may require reference and cross reference to.numerous volumes. Such a task would be impossible to complete with no legal assistance and only the limited library program presently in place.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The eighth amendment requires that jails provide inmates with well-balanced meals, containing sufficient nutritional value to preserve health.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Borden v. Hofmann“jails must provide `reasonably adequate' sanitation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gates v. Cook
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.