Welch v. Spangler’s Empirical Analysis
939 F.2d 570 · 1991
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2022
13 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
Relies on Carey v. Piphus · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Memphis Community School District v. Stachura · Powell v. Ward · Anthony Degidio v. Orville B. Pung
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“4. In the absence of exigent circumstances, an inmate’s legal papers will not be taken from or searched in his cell or room while the inmate is not present unless the inmate gives prior consent to such a taking or search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wycoff v. Hedgepeth
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.