Moore v. Pemberton’s Empirical Analysis
110 F.3d 22 · 1997
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Jimmy Walker v. J.T. O'brien, and Joseph W. Finfrock v. Craig A. Hanks (2000), Romandine v. United States (2000)
17 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Heck v. Humphrey · Sandin v. Conner · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he right defendants in a § 1983 suit are the persons whose wrongful acts harmed the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Truitt v. Ramsey“[This case] is transparently frivolous.... Because it is frivolous, it also counts as a "strike”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Higgason v. Cottrell
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.