Vigliotto v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
873 F.2d 1201 · 1989
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Williams v. Lara (2001), Lott v. Mueller (2002)
39 federal appellate · 5 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Hudson v. Palmer · Whitley v. Albers · Darring v. Kincheloe · Wright v. Newsome · Patterson 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he temporary deprivation of an inmate's legal materials does not, in all cases, rise to a constitutional deprivation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]t most, prison officials deprived [the prisoner] of his legal materials for three days”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“three day deprivation does not rise to constitutional proportions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lott v. Mueller
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.