Gassler v. Rayl’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 706 · 1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010 · most notably Gibbs v. Hopkins (1993), Tighe v. Wall (1996)
7 federal appellate ·
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 Bounds v. Smith · Johnson v. Avery · Santoni v. United States · Buise v. Hudkins · Flittie v. Solem
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an inmate simply does not have the right to provide his fellow inmates with legal assistance.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[j]ailhouse lawyers have standing to challenge official action that prevents them from assisting other prisoners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tighe v. Wall
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.