Munz v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
908 F.2d 267 · 1990
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Allen v. McCurry · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · Johnson v. Avery
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is no reasonably effective alternative means of assistance available to [Iowa State Penitentiary] prisoners or to any specific grouping of prisoners within ISP.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gibbs v. Hopkins“plaintiff [must] be allowed to amend his complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gibbs v. Hopkins
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.