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Robinson v. Superintendent Rockview SCI’s Empirical Analysis

831 F.3d 148 · 2016

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
May 2020
most recently cited

3 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E

Relies on Jones v. Bock · Woodford v. Ngo · V. C O Churner · Ross v. Blake · Mitchell v. Horn

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[c]onsistent with Small [ v. Camden Cnty. , 728 F.3d 265 (3d Cir. 2013) ] and the unanimous view of the Courts of Appeals that have spoken on the matter, ... SCI Rockview rendered its administrative remedies unavailable to [Robinson] when it failed to timely (by its own procedural rules) respond to his grievance and then repeatedly ignored his follow-up requests for a decision on his claim.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[f]ive of our sister courts have held that a prison's failure to timely respond to an inmate's properly filed grievance renders its remedies 'unavailable' under the PLRA,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “filing suit [was the plaintiff's] only method to advance his claim.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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