DeWalt v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
224 F.3d 607 · 2000
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 249 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Muhammad v. Close (2004), Peso Chavez v. The Illinois State Police (2001)
77 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Estelle v. Gamble · Wolff v. McDonnell · Farmer v. Brennan · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle
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 249 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no relief could be granted under any set of facts that could be proved consistent with the allegations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nlike the plaintiffs in Preiser, Heck, and Edwards,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted unless after accepting all well-pleaded allegations in the plaintiff's complaint as true and drawing all reasonable factual inferences from those facts in the plaintiff's favor, it appears certain that the plaintiff cannot prove any set of facts in support of his claim entitling him to relief.”
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.