Griffin v. Arpaio’s Empirical Analysis
557 F.3d 1117 · 2009
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Sapp v. Kimbrell (2010), Nunez v. Duncan (2010)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Jones v. Bock · Woodford v. Ngo · Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle · Wyatt v. Terhune
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the administrative rulebook is silent, .a grievance suffices if it alerts the prison to the nature of the wrong for which redress is sought. As in a notice-pleading system, the grievant need not lay out the facts, articulate legal theories, or demand particular relief. All the grievance need do is object intelligibly to some asserted shortcoming.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The primary purpose of a grievance is to alert the prison to a problem and facilitate its resolution, not to lay groundwork for litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“contain every fact necessary to prove each element of an eventual legal claim.”
1 later decision 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.