7 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 181 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Tolan v. Cotton.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tolan v. Cotton Anchor | green | “judge's function at summary judgment is not to weigh the evidence and determine the truth of the matter but to determine whether there is a genuine issue for trial.” | 117 |
| 2 | Johnson v. Johnson | green | “we are mindful that the primary purpose of a grievance is to alert prison officials to a problem, not to provide personal notice to a particular official that he may be sued; the grievance is not a summons and complaint that initiates adversarial litigation.” | 17 |
| 3 | Pyles v. Nwaobasi | green | “remedies that are genuinely unavailable or nonexistent need not be exhausted.” | 17 |
| 4 | Gregory Turley v. Dave Rednour | green | “the exhaustion requirement's primary purpose is to alert the state to the problem and invite corrective action.” | 14 |
| 5 | Roberts v. Neal | green | “the grievance has a fatal defect, but it lies elsewhere; it lies in the absence of anything in it to indicate that davis was the target.” | 9 |
| 6 | Tolan v. Cotton | green | “general rule that a judge's function at summary judgment is not to weigh the evidence and determine the truth of the matter but to determine whether there is a genuine issue for trial.” | 4 |
| 7 | Marque Bowers v. Thomas Dart | green | “finding a grievance did not sufficiently identify the issue because "ontending that officer rottar failed to come to his aid during the attack is not the same as alleging that the jail employees predicted but ignored the risk.” | 3 |
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