Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
491 federal appellate · 460 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,921 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Jones v. Bock (2007), Woodford v. Ngo (2006)
491 federal appellate · 460 district · 89 state decisions — followed in 20 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
reviewedWilliams v. Walsh (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3626 (§ 20409 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 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 · Almendarez-Torres v. United States · Farmer v. Brennan · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Wilson v. Seiter
Cited together with V. C O Churner · 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 2,921 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.”
139 later decisions quote this exact passage“applies to all inmate suits about prison life, whether they involve general circumstances or particular episodes, and whether they allege excessive force or some other wrong.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd v. Driver · May v. Segovia“until such administrative remedies as are available are exhausted.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Muhammad v. Mayfield · No. 01-2153
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.