Geiger v. Jowers’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.3d 371 · 2005
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 342 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Mayfield v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice (2008), Elsensohn v. St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office (2008)
10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Sandin v. Conner · Denton v. Hernandez · Yohey v. Collins
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 342 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Geiger does not have a federally protected liberty interest in having these grievances resolved to his satisfaction. As he relies on a legally nonexistent interest, any alleged due process violation arising from the alleged failure to investigate his grievances is indisputably meritless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although pro se briefs are to be liberally construed, pro se litigants have no general immunity from the rule that issues and arguments not briefed on appeal are abandoned,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butts v. Martin
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.