Rocky v. Vittorie’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 734 · 1987
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2005
16 federal appellate · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997 (Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. · Hamman v. Southwestern Gas Pipeline, 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would be appropriate and in the interests of justice,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made a good faith attempt to exhaust his administrative remedies.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]ithout the prospect of such a dismissal, a prisoner could circumvent the exhaustion requirement by simply doing nothing for ninety days and then resuming his litigation in the district court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arvie v. Stalder · Marsh v. Jones
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.