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833 F.3d 242 · 2016

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
May 2025
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 6 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E

Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Wolff v. McDonnell · Heck v. Humphrey · Malley v. Briggs · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “decision will neither presently affect the parties' rights nor have a more-than-speculative chance of affecting them in the future.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “(1) he engaged in conduct protected under the First Amendment; (2) the defendant took some retaliatory action sufficient to deter a person of ordinary firmness in plaintiff's position from speaking again; and (3) a causal link between the exercise of a constitutional right and the adverse action taken against him.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[T]he length of confinement cannot be ignored in deciding whether the confinement meets constitutional standards. A filthy, overcrowded cell and a diet of 'grue' might be tolerable for a few days and intolerably cruel for weeks or months.”
    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.