Koch v. Ricketts’s Empirical Analysis
68 F.3d 1191 · 1995
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Jones v. Blanas (2004), Zerilli-Edelglass v. New York City Transit Authority (2003)
13 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1746 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Houston v. Lack · Faile v. Upjohn Co. · Vaughan v. Ricketts · Miller v. Sumner
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it is deposited in the institution's internal mail system on or before the last day for filing. Timely filing may be shown by a notarized statement or by a declaration ... setting forth the date of deposit and stating that first-class postage has been paid.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There was no logging procedure available to Koch that did not involve an additional fee [through certified, registered or insured mail]. Yet Koch still faced the obstacles that motivated the Court to adopt the Houston rule in the first place: lack of control over the progress of this mailing, and the potential for interference by prison officials whose interests are adverse to the prisoner bringing a § 1983 suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Houston assumed that a logging procedure was not only available for regular first class mail, but was also automatic.”
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.