Ruiz v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.3d 385 · 1999
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013
4 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 18 U.S.C. § 3626 (§ 20409 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Powell v. McCormack · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Weinstein v. Bradford · Murphy v. Hunt · Porter v. Warner Holding Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Act provides that a district court should not grant prospective relief — defined as “all relief other than compensatory money damages,” 18 U.S.C. § 3626 (g)(7) — in a prison litigation case “unless the court finds that such relief is narrowly drawn, extends no further than necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right, and is the least intrusive means necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right.” 18 U.S.C. § 3626 (a)(1)(A).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Black v. Colunga“[a]ny prospective relief subject to a pending motion [for termination] shall be automatically stayed during the period - beginning on the 30th day after such motion is filed - and ending on the date the court enters a final order ruling on the motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress understood that there would be some cases in which a conscientious district court acting in good faith would perceive that equity required that it suspend”
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.