Barry v. Ratelle’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2016
1 federal appellate · 3 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Wilson v. Seiter · Hafer v. Melo
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he legislative history of section 1997e(a), as amended by the PLRA, seems to indicate that the drafters did not intend to require prisoners to exhaust state tort remedies before filing a federal civil rights claim. It implies that Congress merely intended to require exhaustion of prison grievance procedures.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is no indication in the legislative history surrounding the PLRA to suggest that Congress intended to legislatively overrule Felder v. Casey , . . . which held that state law notice-of-claim statutes are inapplicable to § 1983 litigation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires prisoners to exhaust the administrative remedies established by the corrections system before they may file a lawsuit in federal court.”
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.