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1982

Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
1
states following
February 2025
most recently cited

38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 113 Ill. 2d 473 - Maloney v. Bower (1986), 333 Ill. App. 3d 94 - Caruth v. Quinley (2002)

38 state decisions

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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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Bounds v. Smith · Meachum v. Fano · Pell v. Procunier

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

  1. ““[0]nce a circuit court, in its discretion, has determined that appointment of the public defender is appropriate to represent an indigent prisoner, limited to a grievance relating to the conditions of his confinement, then that assistant public defender is expected to exercise due diligence in proceeding with the assigned case.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Marrero v. Peters
  2. “We cannot find sufficient support in any of the United States Supreme Court holdings to say that an indigent prisoner has a constitutional right to appointed counsel in a civil suit either at trial or on appeal.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 104 Ill. 2d 72 - Doherty v. Caisley
  3. “The Public Defender, as directed by the court, shall act as attorney, without fee, before any court within any county for all persons who are held in custody * * *.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 104 Ill. 2d 72 - Doherty v. Caisley

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.