Zilich v. Lucht’s Empirical Analysis
981 F.2d 694 · 1992
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Smith v. Mensinger (2002), United States v. Miller (1999)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Haines v. Kerner · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams · Hudson v. Palmer
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a special obligation to construe his complaint liberally.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where, as in the case at hand, a prisoner's complaint alleges the taking of legal property that results in the denial of his access to the courts, the Parratt/Hudson analysis cannot, and does not, apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Snyder v. Nolen
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.