Ryan v. Pepe’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
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 Sandin v. Conner · Lee v. United States · Brown v. Toombs · Ray v. Kertes · Casanova v. Dubois
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to stem the tide of frivolous litigation by prison inmates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“See 103 Code Mass. Regs. § 491.09(1) (2001) (”
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.