Richardson v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Payne v. Commonwealth Department of Corrections · Jae v. Good · Luckett v. Blaine · Fisher v. Pennsylvania State Police · Freed v. HARVEYS LAKE BOROUGH ZONING HEARING BD.
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court shall dismiss prison conditions litigation at any time ... if the court determines ... the defendant is entitled to assert a valid affirmative defense, including immunity, which, if asserted, would preclude the relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.