Simpson v. Nickel’s Empirical Analysis
450 F.3d 303 · 2006
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Patton v. MFS/Sun Life Financial Distributors, Inc. (2007), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Autozone, Inc. (2013)
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Heck v. Humphrey · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A. · Preiser v. Rodriguez
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the doctrine of Heck and Edwards is limited to prisoners who are "in custody" as a result of the defendants' challenged acts, and who therefore are able to seek collateral review. Take away the possibility of collateral review and § 1983 becomes available. Simpson can't obtain collateral relief in either state or federal court, so he isn't (and never was) affected by Heck or Edwards .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Savory v. Cannon“[A] prisoner whose grievance implies the invalidity of ongoing custody must seek review by collateral attack.... Only after the custody is over may the prisoner use § 1983 to seek damages against persons who may have been responsible; indeed, the § 1983 claim does not accrue until the custody ends.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Savory v. Cannon“neither disciplinary segregation nor a reduction in the amount of recreation is a form of 'custody' under federal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Savory v. Cannon
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.