Wyatt v. Terhune’s Empirical Analysis
315 F.3d 1108 · 2003
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 26 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 521 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Jones v. Bock (2007), Henrietta v. Bloomberg (2003)
55 federal appellate · 26 district · 5 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
Relies on Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Turner v. Safley · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit · City of Boerne v. Flores · V. C O Churner
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 521 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No 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.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morton v. Hall · Sapp v. Kimbrell“would be contrary to the liberal approach we take to pleadings by pro se prisoners”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ford v. Hubbard · Andrews v. King“'applies to all civil actions, with limited exceptions' ”) (quoting Swierkiewicz, 534 U.S. at 513 , 122 S.Ct. at 998 ); Gavura v. Pennsylvania State House of Reps., No. 00-1279, 55 Fed.Appx. 60 , 2002 WL 31781092 , at (3d Cir. Dec.13, 2002) (”
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.