Gluth v. Kangas’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 1504 · 1991
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey (1996), Gentry v. Duckworth (1995)
52 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 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 Bell v. Wolfish · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez · Honig v. Doe · Toussaint v. McCarthy
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Bounds requires the assistance of those 'trained' in the law; the appearance of minimal capacity to assist other inmates alone plainly does not suffice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. Miller · Casey v. Lewis“The fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts requires prison officials to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers by providing prisoners with adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the existence of an adequate law library does not provide for meaningful access to the courts if the inmates are not allowed a reasonable amount of time to use the library”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Casey v. Lewis
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.