Lewis v. Jacks’s Empirical Analysis
486 F.3d 1025 · 2007
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Zutz v. Nelson (2010), Patel v. United States Bureau of Prisons (2008)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Snowden v. Hughes · Crawford-El v. Britton · Kipp v. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission · Madewell v. Roberts · Revels v. Vincenz
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did not ask for a search (shakedown) of the laundry at that time,” R. vol. 3 at 79, but prison officials explained that "[t]he shakedown team routinely checks the laundry for contraband and you had nothing to do with their shakedown, this was scheduled previous to your allegations.” Id. at 145, 154. As Strope offered nothing to effectively oppose this evidence, we do not address this secondary aspect of his claim any further. 3 . Sirope alludes to a third complaint, made in December 2004, as well, but it did not concern Sass. 4 . We note that Strope's retaliation claim may have failed on another element as well: that the alleged retaliatory action was sufficiently adverse that it "would chill a person of ordinary firmness from engaging in [protected] activity in the future.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Strope v. McKune“the record contains insufficient evidence that [challenged] work assignments would chill an inmate of ordinary firmness from filing grievances”). It is undisputed that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Strope v. McKune
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.