V. C O Churner’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
477 federal appellate · 412 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,019 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Woodford v. Ngo (2006), Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle (2002)
477 federal appellate · 412 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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
reviewedBooth v. Churner (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Weinberger v. Salfi · McCarthy v. Madigan · Reiter v. Cooper
Cited together with Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle · Woodford v. Ngo · Jones v. Bock · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H
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 3,019 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.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not read futility or other exceptions into statutory exhaustion requirements where Congress has provided otherwise”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“requires the possibility of some relief for the action complained of ..., the word”
13 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.