Johnson v. Rowley’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.3d 40 · 2009
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Cafasso v. General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (2011), Hayden v. Paterson (2010)
12 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Jones v. Bock · Woodford v. Ngo
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accept all factual allegations in the complaint as true and draw all reasonable inferences in [the plaintiffs'] favor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“BOP’s procedural rules ... ereate[ ] a four-step administrative grievance system for prisoner complaints. The first step require[s] inmates to “present an issue of concern informally” to the prison staff so that they could attempt to resolve it. If the issue remain[s] unresolved, the inmate c[an] submit “a formal written Administrative Remedy Request” to the institution staff member designated to receive such requests. The inmate c[an] appeal any adverse decision made at that stage to the Regional Director, and then to the BOP’s General Counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Killian“to state a claim for relief that is plausible on its face,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.