Pressly v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 514 · 1987
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Jones v. Buchanan (2003), Gray v. Spillman (1991)
23 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 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Stump v. Sparkman · Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky · Hamlin v. Warren · King v. Blankenship · Timmerman v. Brown
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“anyone who could state a viable civil rights claim [to] subvert [exhaustion of remedies] by postponing a claim for release until his substantive rights had been adjudicated in a federal forum.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We agree with the district court that official force justifiably applied against a resisting prisoner which causes no verifiable injury cannot support a claim of constitutional violation, (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morrison v. Martin“anyone who could state a viable civil rights claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harvey v. Horan
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.