Akhtar v. Mesa’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.3d 1202 · 2012
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Albino v. Baca (2014), Pride v. Correa (2013)
9 federal appellate · 8 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 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 · Jones v. Bock · Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r · Wyatt v. Terhune
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allegations contained in the pleadings, exhibits attached to the complaint, and matters properly subject to judicial notice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have held that “a prisoner does not comply with [the exhaustion] requirement by exhausting available remedies during the course of the litigation.” If, however, a plaintiff files an amended complaint adding new claims based on conduct that occurred after the filing of the initial complaint, the plaintiff need only show that the new claims were exhausted before tendering the amended complaint to the clerk for filing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cano v. Taylor“instruct prisoners on what precise facts must be alleged in a grievance, 'a grievance suffices if it alerts the prison to the nature of the wrong for which redress is sought.”
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.