Johnson v. Testman’s Empirical Analysis
380 F.3d 691 · 2004
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Lin Zhong v. United States Department of Justice (2006), Hemphill v. New York (2004)
33 federal appellate · 11 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 Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle · Davis v. New York · Perez v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections · Hemphill v. New York · Jenkins v. Haubert
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inmates must provide enough information about the conduct of which they complain to allow prison officials to take appropriate responsive measures.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] grievance suffices if it alerts the prison to the nature of the wrong for which redress is sought. As in a notice-pleading system, the grievant need not lay out the facts, articulate legal theories, or demand particular relief. All the grievance need do is object intelligibly to some asserted shortcoming.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he PLRA's exhaustion requirement is designed to `afford [ ] corrections officials time and [sic] opportunity to address complaints internally before allowing the initiation of a federal case'”
5 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.