Nigro v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.3d 990 · 1994
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably J-J (1997), Longenette v. Krusing (2003)
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 3621 · 28 U.S.C. § 509 (Justice Department Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Enhancement Act of 1988) · 28 U.S.C. § 542 · 28 U.S.C. § 609 · 5 U.S.C. § 301
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Houston v. Lack · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Batterton v. Francis · Schiavone v. Fortune
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot in the name of sympathy rewrite a clear procedural rule . . . . Fex instructs that Houston policies cannot override the plain meaning of a procedural rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Smith v. Conner“Houston ... paint[s] the pro se prisoner in a sympathetic light. We cannot in the name of sympathy rewrite a clear procedural rule, however.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[File],' left undefined, [is] susceptible to the construction given [it] in Houston [.]”
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.