76 F. App'x 24 - Violett v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
2003
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Thaddeus-X v. Blatter · McGore v. Wrigglesworth · Mayer v. Mylod · Lewis v. ACB Business Services, Inc.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the plaintiff engaged in protected conduct; (2) an adverse action was taken against the plaintiff that would deter a person of ordinary firmness from continuing to engage in that conduct; and (3) there is a causal connection between elements one and two-that is, the adverse action was motivated at least in part by the plaintiff's protected conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maben v. Thelen“[a]n inmate has an undisputed First Amendment right to file grievances against prison officials on his own behalf.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maben v. Thelen“Filing grievances through the inmate grievance mechanism is protected conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maben v. Thelen
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.