Peterson v. Shanks’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.3d 1140 · 1998
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 14 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Fogle v. Pierson (2006), Sutton v. Providence St. Joseph Medical Center (1999)
8 federal appellate · 14 district · 7 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000B
Relies on Turner v. Safley · City of Boerne v. Flores · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson · Hall v. Bellmon · Ramos v. Lamm
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an inmate is not inoculated from the normal conditions of confinement experienced by convicted felons serving time in prison merely because he has engaged in protected activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the court can reasonably read the pleadings to state a valid claim on which the plaintiff could prevail, it should do so despite the plaintiff's failure to cite proper legal authority, his confusion of various legal theories, his poor syntax and sentence construction, or his unfamiliarity with pleading requirements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“conclusory allegations without supporting factual averments are insufficient to state a claim on which relief can be based”
1 later decision 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.