Gometz v. Henman’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 113 · 1986
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Smith v. Maschner (1990), Gentry v. Duckworth (1995)
29 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Bell v. Wolfish · Singleton v. Wulff · Bounds v. Smith · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would be inconsistent with Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson, 404 U.S. 97 , 92 S.Ct. 349, 30 L.Ed.2d 296 (1971).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] prison is free to eliminate one kind of protection ... if it supplies adequate substitutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he jailhouse lawyer may not (lawfully) charge for his services”
1 later decision 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.