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Ching v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

895 F.2d 608 · 1990

Citation profile

49
cited by 49 later decisions
5
states following
February 2016
most recently cited

26 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Barnett v. Centoni (1994), Keenan v. Hall (1996)

26 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions

290199020002010decided

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 Bounds v. Smith · Dreher v. Sielaff

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

  1. “[A] prisoner's right of access to the courts includes contact visitation with [her or] his counsel.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Osborn v. Shillinger · Barnett v. Centoni
  2. “recognized that while prison administrators are given deference in developing policies to preserve internal order, these policies will not be upheld if they unnecessarily abridge the defendant’s meaningful access to his attorney and the courts. The opportunity to communicate privately with an attorney is an important part of that meaningful access.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Mann v. Reynolds · Casey v. Lewis
  3. “The opportunity to communicate privately with an attorney is an important part of ... meaningful access.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Anthony Deneen Best v. Samuel A. Lewis, Director · Casey v. Lewis

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.