Kensu v. Haigh’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.3d 172 · 1996
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Jones v. Caruso (2009), Colvin v. Caruso (2010)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Thomas v. Arn · Gutierrez v. Lynch · Shalala v. Schaefer · Walker v. Mintzes
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not raise [an] argument in his objections to the magistrate's report and recommendation ... [he] has [forfeited] his right to raise this issue on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right of a prisoner to receive materials of a legal nature, which have impact upon or import with respect to that prisoner’s legal rights and/or matters, is a basic right recognized and afforded protection by the courts .... ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Caruso“An inmate who claims his access to the courts was denied fails to state a claim without any showing of prejudice to his litigation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vick v. Core Civic
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.