Johnson v. Meadows’s Empirical Analysis
418 F.3d 1152 · 2005
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Woodford v. Ngo (2006), Bryant v. Rich (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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · V. C O Churner · Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle · Spruill v. Gillis · Pozo v. McCaughtry
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No action shall be brought with respect to prison conditions under section 1983 of this title, or any other Federal law, by a prisoner confined in any jail, prison, or other correctional facility until such administrative remedies as are available are exhausted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) to avoid premature interruption of the administrative process; (2) to let the agency develop the necessary factual background upon which decisions should be based; (3) to permit the agency to exercise its discretion or apply its expertise; (4) to improve the efficiency of the administrative process; (5) to conserve scarce judicial resources, since the complaining party may be successful in vindicating rights in the administrative process and the courts may never have to intervene; (6) to give the agency a chance to discover and correct its own errors; and (7) to avoid the possibility that frequent and deliberate flouting of the administrative processes could weaken the effectiveness of an agency by encouraging people to ignore its procedures.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the prospect of a dismissal with prejudice, a prisoner could evade the exhaustion requirement by filing no administrative grievance or by intentionally filing an untimely one, thereby foreclosing administrative remedies and gaming access to a federal forum without exhausting administrative remedies” (internal quotation marks omitted)); see also Berry v. Kerik, 366 F.3d 85 , 87-88 (2d Cir.2004) (indicating that dismissal with prejudice would be appropriate where”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bryant v. Rich
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.