Lewis v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
300 F.3d 829 · 2002
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Jones v. Bock (2007), Jernigan v. Stuchell (2002)
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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. § 1997E
Relies on Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · V. C O Churner · Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle · Oscar Socop-Gonzalez v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · National Cable & Telecommunications Ass'n v. Gulf Power 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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We join the Eighth and Fifth circuits on this issue because we refuse to interpret the PLRA `so narrowly as to ... permit [prison officials] to exploit the exhaustion requirement through indefinite delay in responding to grievances.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“administrative remedies [are] exhausted when prison officials fail to respond to inmate grievances because those remedies had become `unavailable' . . . . We join [them] on this issue because we refuse to interpret the PLRA so narrowly as to . . . permit [prison officials] to exploit the exhaustion requirement through indefinite delay in responding to grievances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brengettcy v. Horton“because nonjurisdictional prerequisites to suit in federal court are typically subject to equitable estoppel,”
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.