Mathis v. Sauser’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Brandon v. Corrections Corp. of America (2001), C.R.B. v. C.C. (1998)
26 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question before us is not whether Mathis possesses a constitutional right to have a printer in his cell. Rather, we must determine whether Mathis, under Alaska's constitution, has a constitutionally protected interest in not being deprived of his printer if the rationale behind such deprivation is to restrict his right of access to the courts. Our inquiry is framed by the record in this case, which suggests that the [Standard Operating Procedure] may have been promulgated to address the "problem" of pro se litigation on the part of ... inmates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a challenged regulation curtails an inmate's right of access [to the courts], a reviewing court must determine that the given policy rationale is legitimate and that there is a sufficiently close relationship between this articulated rationale and the selected means of achieving it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“even when state officials deem a prisoner's pro se legal activities frivolous, the Constitution of Alaska precludes any action aimed at impeding an inmate's access to the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.