Minneci v. Pollard’s Empirical Analysis
565 U.S. 118 · 2012
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Hood
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prisoners ordinarily cannot bring state-law tort actions against employees of the Federal Government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. Swartz“standards [that] seek to reflect and to reconcile the Court's reasoning set forth in earlier cases”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“alternative, existing process for protecting the [injured party's] interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lanuza v. Love
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.