Thomas v. Ponder’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.3d 1144 · 2010
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Sandin v. Conner · Wilson v. Seiter · Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc. · Helling v. McKinney
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial agreement among the cases in this area that some form of regular outdoor exercise is extremely important to the psychological and physical well being of the inmates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shorter v. Baca“an ordinary pro se litigant, like other litigants, must comply strictly with the summary judgment rules. Pro se inmates are, however, expressly exempted from this rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Soto v. Sweetman“courts should construe liberally motion papers and pleadings filed by pro se inmates and should avoid applying summary judgment rules strictly .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Soto v. Sweetman
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.