Adams v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.3d 72 · 1994
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Woods v. Smith (1995), Deutsch v. United States (1995)
41 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Neitzke v. Williams · Hewitt v. Helms · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Denton v. Hernandez · ASARCO Inc. v. Kadish
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The prospect of endless claims of retaliation on the part of inmates would disrupt prison officials in the discharge of their most basic duties. Claims of retaliation must therefore be regarded with skepticism, lest federal courts embroil themselves in every disciplinary act that occurs in state penal institutions.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Appellant’s assertion of a “right to inform” states only a claim of entitlement to a particular grievance procedure because he seeks, in essence, a means of bringing complaints regarding his incarceration to the attention of prison officials. As other circuits have recognized, there is no constitutional right to participate in grievance proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very act of discipline by prison officials is by definition 'retaliatory' in the sense that it responds directly to prisoner misconduct.”
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.