Johnson v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
340 F.3d 624 · 2003
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Banks v. Roberts (2007), Abdul-Muhammad v. Kempker (2006)
4 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on V. C O Churner · Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle · Perez v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections · Dwight E. Freeman v. Warden Francis Corrections Officer Shoemaker Nurse Kent · McKinney v. Carey
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the plain language of section 1997e(a), an inmate must exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit in federal court. Thus, in considering motions to dismiss for failure to exhaust under section 1997e(a), the district court must look to the time of filing, not the time the district court is rendering its decision, to determine if exhaustion has occurred. If exhaustion was not completed at the time of filing, dismissal is mandatory. We also recognize the holdings of many of our sister circuits that permitting exhaustion pendente lite 4 undermines the objectives of section 1997e(a) and that the language of section 1997e(a) clearly contemplates exhaustion prior to the commencement of the action as an indispensable requirement, thus requiring an outright dismissal of such actions rather than issuing continuances so that exhaustion may occur.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress enacted § 1997e(a) to reduce the quantity and improve the quality of prisoner suits; to this purpose, Congress afforded corrections officials time and opportunity to address complaints internally before allowing the initiation of a federal case.”
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.