Smith v. O'CONNOR’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 994 F. Supp. 460 - Aziz Zarif Shabazz v. Pico (1998), 2 F. Supp. 2d 306 - Warburton v. Underwood (1998)
1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff's complaint does not, however, present any facts to show how such conduct, if it occurred with the requisite mental state, materially prejudiced a pending legal action or one that he sought to file in the courts. At best, plaintiff's allegation that his 'law work' was destroyed supports the conclusion that he was temporarily inconvenienced by the loss of his papers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rasheen v. Adner“To state a claim that his constitutional right to access the court was violated, plaintiff must allege facts demonstrating that defendants deliberately and maliciously interfered with his access to the courts, and that such conduct materially prejudiced a legal action he sought to pursue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Covino v. Reopel“[S]ection 1983 [can]not be made a vehicle for transforming mere civil tort injuries into constitutional injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Galarza v. Monti
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.