George v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
507 F.3d 605 · 2007
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Turley v. Gaetz (2010), Owens v. Hinsley (2011)
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Farmer v. Brennan · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Erickson v. Pardus
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right to relief jointly, severally, or in the alternative with respect to or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Claim A against Defendant 1 should not be joined with unrelated Claim B ' against Defendant 2. Unrelated claims ... belong in different suits [so] to prevent the sort of morass that [a multi]-claim, [multi]-defendant suit produced [and] ensure that prisoners pay the required filing fees&emdash;for the Prison Litigation Reform Act limits to 3 the number of frivolous suits or appeals that any prisoner may file without prepayment of the required fees.... A buckshot complaint that would be rejected if filed by a free person&emdash;say, a suit complaining that A defrauded the plaintiff, B defamed him, C punched him, D failed to pay a debt, and E infringed his copyright, all in different transactions&emdash; should be rejected if filed by a prisoner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“any question of law or fact common to all defendants will arise in the action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.