Alexander v. Ware’s Empirical Analysis
714 F.2d 416 · 1983
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Gartrell v. Gaylor (1993), Mike Steven Stidham v. Peace Officer Standards and Training (2001)
20 federal appellate ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Rizzo v. Goode
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he district court should consider whether Alexander's complaint, in order to effectuate the Ruiz decree, is more efficiently processed as a petition either for further relief or for a contempt citation before the Ruiz court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. McKaskle“If a prisoner challenges a 'single allegedly defective [disciplinary] hearing,' he attacks, in essence, the fact and duration of his custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gartrell v. Gaylor“a less stringent standard than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers.”
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.