Reyes v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.3d 654 · 2016
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Jones v. Bock · Woodford v. Ngo · Correction Officer Porters v. Ronald Nussle · Spruill v. Gillis · Ross v. County of Bernalillo
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e hold that a prisoner exhausts ... under the PLRA ... if prison officials ignore the procedural problem and render a decision on the merits of the grievance at each available step of the administrative process .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The PLRA attempts to eliminate unwarranted federal-court interference with the administration of prisons, and thus seeks to afford corrections officials time and opportunity to address complaints internally before allowing the initiation of a federal case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fuqua v. Ryan“[p]rison officials have had the opportunity to address the grievance and correct their own errors,”
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.