Miller v. Thornburgh’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4001 · 18 U.S.C. § 5003 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2242 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 4 U.S.C. § 112
Relies on Wells v. Simonds Abrasive Co. · Howe v. Smith · Shields v. Beto · Steven Guerra v. Edwin Meese, III · Williams v. Steele
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]elief through the federal prison administrative grievance procedure would be so unlikely that to require such exhaustion would serve only as an obstructive formality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blango v. Thornburgh“No citizen shall be imprisoned or otherwise detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blango v. Thornburgh
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.