Wyatt v. Terhune’s Empirical Analysis
280 F.3d 1238 · 2002
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Turner v. Safley · City of Boerne v. Flores · Lee v. City of Los Angeles · Herman Resnick v. Warden Hayes Lt. Ernst Officer Myers (Dho) Counselor Aune Officer Wade · Bowden v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A male inmate's hair shall not be longer than three inches and shall not extend over the eyebrows or below the top of the shirt collar while standing upright. Hair shall be cut around the ears, and sideburns shall be neatly trimmed, and shall not extend below the mid-point of the ear. The width of the sideburns shall not exceed one and one-half inches and shall not include flared ends.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wyatt v. Terhune“courts should distinguish between taking judicial notice of the truth of some extrajudicial fact recited in a court record and the use of those facts for some purpose that does not depend on the truth of the facts recited”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wyatt v. Terhune“We believe the majority of circuits have decided this question correctly. We agree with Judge Easterbrook that exhaustion under the PLRA is comparable to a statute of limitations, which is an affirmative defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Casanova v. Dubois
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.