Wendell v. Asher’s Empirical Analysis
162 F.3d 887 · 1998
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Johnson v. Johnson (2004), Mark Anthony Harris Michael Hegmann Janet Boyd Rose James (1999)
18 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Western District Court)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · McCarthy v. Madigan · Underwood v. Wilson · Garrett v. Hawk
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rather, the amended statute imposes a requirement, rather like a statute of limitations, that may be subject to certain defenses such as waiver, estoppel, or equitable tolling.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o action shall be brought with respect to prison conditions under section 1983 of this title, or any other Federal law, by a prisoner confined in any jail, prison, or other correctional facility until such administrative remedies as are available are exhausted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the division grievance investigation with the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crain v. Prasifka · Days v. Johnson
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.