Terrell v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 1015 · 1991
Citation profile
106 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 368 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State of California v. Campbell (1998), Farmer v. Haas (1993)
106 federal appellate · 8 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Estelle v. Gamble · Whitley v. Albers · Jett v. Dallas Independent School District
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 368 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evaluation of both the likelihood of success on the merits [and] the ability of the petitioner to articulate his claims per se in light of the complexity of the legal issues involved.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made it extremely unlikely that [Queen] would succeed on the merits [of his claim].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Nunes · Queen v. Gomez“[O]rdinarily, a federal prisoner seeking both damages and injunctive relief cannot bring a Bivens action until he or she has first exhausted any available administrative remedies.”
2 later decisions 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.