Flick v. Alba’s Empirical Analysis
932 F.2d 728 · 1991
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Antonelli v. Sheahan (1996), Adams v. Rice (1994)
12 federal appellate · 13 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
Relies on 568 F. Supp. 8 - Azeez v. DeRobertis
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right to petition the government for redress is the right of access to the courts, which is not compromised by the prison's refusal to entertain his grievance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Nadeau
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.