Johnson v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
948 F.2d 517 · 1991
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Keenan v. Hall (1996), Rhodes v. Robinson (2004)
86 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3621 · 18 U.S.C. § 4082 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Anderson v. Creighton · Bell v. Wolfish · Cruz v. Beto · Fu-Kong Tzung Jean Tzung v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, and Does 1 Through 100, Inclusive
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A right of access claim other than one alleging inadequate law libraries or alternative sources of legal knowledge must be based on an actual injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appellant also contends that inadequacies in the breadth of legal materials provided and in the availability of the CBCC law library unlawfully denied him access to the courts_ In addition, we have recognized that “the Constitution does not guarantee a prisoner unlimited access to a law library. Prison officials of necessity must regulate the time, manner, and place in which library facilities are used.” More importantly, Mr. Johnson failed to demonstrate that these inadequacies in any way handicapped his access to the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vandelft v. Moses“[T]he prison's alleged lack of various titles of the United States Code does not contravene minimal constitutional standards. [Plaintiff] did not demonstrate ... that the equivalent information could not be obtained through alternative sources....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.