Thomas v. Woolum’s Empirical Analysis
337 F.3d 720 · 2003
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Woodford v. Ngo (2006), Spruill v. Gillis (2004)
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Coleman v. Thompson · Turner v. Safley · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Picard v. Connor
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 60 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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`the exhaustion requirement in § 1997e(a) is directed at exhausting the prisoner's administrative remedies,' and that Use of Force 7 or other investigations do not satisfy the PLRA's dictates.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Exhaustion ... requires a plaintiff to bring a grievance to the state before coming to federal court even when the state has made clear that it will not grant the relief requested.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.