Knop v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
977 F.2d 996 · 1992
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999), Kallstrom v. City of Columbus (1998)
58 federal appellate · 4 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Gregg v. Georgia · Hudson v. Palmer · Turner v. Safley
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot read and write English, or who lack the intelligence necessary to prepare coherent pleadings, or who, because of protracted confinement in administrative or punitive segregation or protective custody, may not be able to identify the books they need.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there are at least some Michigan prisoners who have been denied the type of access to the courts required under current Supreme Court doctrine.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The alternative avenues open to state authorities to protect a prisoner’s right of access to the courts are precisely that— alternatives. The choice between alternatives lies with the state. A prisoner who chooses not to avail himself of the alternative provided has no basis — constitutional or otherwise — for complaint.”
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.