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830 F.2d 136 · 1987

Citation profile

122
cited by 122 later decisions
2
states following
September 2018
most recently cited

56 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Keenan v. Hall (1996), Freeman v. Arpaio (1997)

56 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions

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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 Bell v. Wolfish · Bounds v. Smith · Herrmann v. United States · Semegen v. Weidner · Martin v. Sargent

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

  1. “Although prison officials may not obstruct a prisoner's access to the courts by unreasonably blocking his access to a law library, prison officials may place reasonable limitations on library access in the interest of the secure and orderly operation of the institution.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Howard v. Barrows · Oltarzewski v. Crist
  2. “genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Henning v. Sowders · Valandingham v. Bojorquez
  3. “[v]erbal harassment or abuse ... is not sufficient to state a constitutional deprivation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Caffrey v. Espino

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.