Bee v. Utah State Prison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[O]ur main concern here is 'protecting the ability of an inmate to prepare a petition or complaint....' ") (quoting Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539 , 576, 94 S.Ct. 2963, 2984, 41 L.Ed.2d 935 (1974)); Love v. Summit County, 776 F.2d 908 , 914 (10th Cir.1985) ("The Supreme Court has never extended 'the Fourteenth Amendment due process claim based on access to the courts ... to apply further than protecting the ability of an inmate to prepare a petition or a complaint.' ") (alteration in original) (quoting Wolff, 418 U.S. at 576, 94 S.Ct. at 2984), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 814, 107 S.Ct. 66, 93 L.Ed.2d 25 (1986); Nordgren, 762 F.2d at 855. "Once an inmate gains access to the court through a properly prepared and filed initial pleading, the court will then be in a position to determine whether the claim has any merit and whether the issues raised are unusually complex.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carper v. DeLand

2. “[W]e are persuaded that we should not hold that the right of access to the courts requires more than the assistance of counsel through completion of the complaint for a federal habeas or civil rights action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carper v. DeLand

3. “district court may, in its discretion, appoint counsel for indigent inmates under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1915(d).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carper v. DeLand