Burton v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.3d 569 · 2003
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Jones v. Bock (2007), Johnson v. Johnson (2004)
16 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Liteky et al United States · Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle · Thaddeus-X v. Blatter
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or a court to find that a prisoner has administratively exhausted a claim against a particular defendant, a prisoner must have alleged mistreatment or misconduct on the part of the defendant.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No action shall be brought with respect to prison conditions under [ 42 U. S. C. § 1983 ], 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.” 42 U. S. C. § 1997e(a).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he Hartsfield holding illustrates that a prisoner’s lawsuit, which alleges multiple claims against multiple defendants, is not vulnerable to dismissal under § 1997e(a) simply because the prisoner has failed to exhaust a particular claim as to a specific defendant.””
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.