Spencer v. Bouchard’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.3d 721 · 2006
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Jones v. Bock (2007), Mickey v. Zeidler Tool & Die Co. (2008)
15 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish · Thomas v. Arn · Hudson v. Palmer
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In describing the alleged mistreatment or misconduct, ... we would not require a prisoner’s grievance to allege a specific legal theory or facts that correspond to all the required elements of a particular legal theory. Rather, it is sufficient for a court to find that a prisoner’s [grievance] gave prison officials fair notice of the alleged mistreatment or misconduct that forms the basis of the constitutional or statutory claim made against a defendant in a prisoner’s complaint.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prison official's act or omission ... result[s] in the denial of 'the minimal civilized measures of life's necessities.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not enough simply to follow the grievance procedure; in order to satisfy the administrative exhaustion requirement, the content of the grievances must be adequate, too. First, under our precedent a grievance must identify each defendant eventually sued. E.g., Curry v. Scott, 249 F.3d 493 , 504-05 (6th Cir.2001).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bell v. Konteh
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.