Ortiz v. Cornetta’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.2d 146 · 1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Mark Labounty v. Stephen G. Adler, E. Carrillo, Walter A. Burdge, J. Grigioni, and All Program Committee Members (1991), Garvey v. Vaughn (1993)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Houston v. Lack · Cruz v. Beto
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once a pro se litigant has done everything possible to bring his action, he should not be penalized by strict rules which might otherwise apply if he were represented by counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garvey v. Vaughn
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.