Richardson v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
651 F.2d 366 · 1981
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably Jones v. Wj Estelle (1983), Todd v. Baskerville (1983)
77 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he propriety of a prisoner’s § 1983 action is not to be determined solely on the basis of the relief sought, i.e., monetary damages as opposed to relief from confinement, but instead the federal court must examine the basis of the complaint and determine whether the claim, if proven, would factually undermine or conflict with validity of the state court conviction which resulted in the prisoner’s confinement. If the basis of the § 1983 claim does go to the constitutionality of the state court conviction, the exclusive remedy is habeas corpus relief with the comity inspired prerequisite of exhaustion of state remedies.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“beyond doubt that [plaintiff could] prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“have consistently held that any Sec. 1983 action which draws into question the validity of the fact or length of confinement must be preceded by exhausting state remedies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abella v. Rubino
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.