prisoner
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 582 U.S. 120 - Ziglar v. Abbasi · 2017Most cited · 475 citing opinions
any person incarcerated or detained in any facility who is accused of, convicted of, sentenced for, or adjudicated delinquent for, violations of criminal law ..."); see also " Agyeman v. INS, " 296 F.3d 871 , 886 (C.A.9 2002) ("[W]e hold that an alien detained by the INS pending deportation is not a 'prisoner' within the meaning of the PLRA"); " LaFontant v. INS, " 135 F.3d 158 , 165 (C.A.D.C.1998) (same); " Ojo v. INS, " 106 F.3d 680 , 683 (C.A.5 1997)
How often courts cite the case defining “prisoner”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “prisoner” — 473 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.