Wilson v. Yaklich’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.3d 596 · 1998
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999), Abdul-Akbar v. McKelvie (2001)
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 Farmer v. Brennan · Neitzke v. Williams · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Turner v. Safley · Sandin v. Conner
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In no event shall a prisoner bring a civil action or appeal a judgment in a civil action or proceeding under this section if the prisoner has, on 3 or more prior occasions, while incarcerated or detained in any facility, brought an action or appeal in a court of the United States that was dismissed on the grounds that it is frivolous, malicious, or fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, unless the prisoner is under imminent danger of serious physical injury.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Alea · Pointer v. Wilkinson“despite being barred from bringing his present § 1983 claims in federal court as an indigent, [the prisoner] still had available to him at the time of the initial filing the opportunity to litigate his federal constitutional causes of action in forma pauperis in state court. As long as a judicial forum is available to a litigant, it cannot be said that the right of access to the courts has been denied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“provision under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (g) because he has, on at least three prior occasions, filed a civil action or an appeal that has been dismissed for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. 1 To fall within the statutory exception to the”
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.