James G. Carey v. Dr. Russell O. Settle’s Empirical Analysis
351 F.2d 483 · 1965
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1983 · most notably Cruz v. Beto (1972), Sostre v. McGinnis (1971)
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Paul Rodger Weller v. Fred H. Dickson, Andrew Emmitte Pope v. Richard A. McGee · Roberts v. Pegelow · Harris v. Settle · Numer v. Miller
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Prisoners will not lightly be permitted to use 28 U.S.C.A. § 1915 (a) to institute suits for damages or injunction against the officials in whose custody they have been placed for confinement. Taylor v. Steele, 8 Cir., 191 F.2d 852, 853 . Such actions are too frequently mere outlets for general discontent in having to undergo penal restraint or of personal satisfaction in attempting to harass prison officials. A court therefore should be satisfied that there exists substantiality as to such a claim, of justiciable basis and of impressing reality before it permits a prisoner to maintain an action therefor on in-forma-pauperis privilege. * * * >»”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of such character or consequence as to shock general conscience or to be intolerable in fundamental fairness, and so to amount to illegal administration of prison sentence.”
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.