Hughes v. Lott’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 230 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Boxer X v. Harris (2006), Brown v. Johnson (2004)
7 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Heck v. Humphrey · Gerstein v. Pugh · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Carey v. Piphus · Denton v. Hernandez
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 230 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n no event shall a prisoner bring a civil action or appeal a judgment in a civil action or proceeding under this section if the prisoner has, on 3 or more prior occasions, while incarcerated or detained in any facility, brought an action or appeal in a court of the United States that was dismissed on the grounds that it is frivolous, malicious, or fails to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, unless the prisoner is under imminent danger of serious physical injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court’s sua sponte dismissal for failure to state a claim under § 1915 (e)(2)(B) (ii) is reviewed ... [while] viewing the allegations in the complaint as true.”). . Plaintiff’s complaint elsewhere suggests that his family sent at least two concerned emails on August 6, 2012. . Indeed, Plaintiff's appellate brief concludes by requesting that we”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because an illegal . . . arrest may be followed by a valid conviction . . . a successful § 1983 action for Fourth Amendment search and seizure violations does not necessarily imply the invalidity of a conviction. As a result, Heck does not generally bar such claims.”
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.