Silva v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 20 · 1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 902 F. Supp. 424 - Lee v. Coughlin (1995), Mitchell Kalwasinski v. R. Morse, Dep. Supt. of Security (1999)
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Eng v. Coughlin
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an inmate's right to assistance is limited.... [A]n assistant must be assigned to the inmate to act as his surrogate--to do what the inmate would have done were he able. The assistant is not obliged to go beyond the specific instructions of the inmate because if he did so he would then be acting as counsel in a prison disciplinary proceeding, assistance to which a prisoner is not entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Horne v. Coughlin
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.