Berdella v. Delo’s Empirical Analysis
972 F.2d 204 · 1992
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Weiler v. Purkett (1998), Beaulieu v. Ludeman (2012)
51 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Turner v. Safley · Bounds v. Smith · Procunier v. Martinez · Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co.
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.
“an inmate must demonstrate that he suffered prejudice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“designate the judgment, order, or part thereof appealed from”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitutional right to meaningful access to the courts,”
2 later decisions 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.