7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 391 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 Booth v. Churner.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Booth v. Churner Anchor | green | “an inmate must exhaust irrespective of the forms of relief sought and offered through administrative avenues.” | 80 |
| 2 | Williams v. Beard | green | “regardless of the relief offered through administrative procedures” | 70 |
| 3 | Harris v. Armstrong | green | “he was misled or that there was some extraordinary reason he was prevented from complying with the statutory mandate.” | 57 |
| 4 | Davis v. Warman | green | “reluctance to invoke equitable reasons to excuse an inmate's failure to exhaust as the statute requires.” | 51 |
| 5 | Robert Spruill v. Frank Gillis Goolier, C.O. McGlaughlin M.D. Brown, P.A | green | “there appears to be unanimous circuit court consensus that a prisoner may not fulfill the plra's exhaustion requirement by exhausting administrative remedies after the filing of the complaint in federal court” | 46 |
| 6 | Michael Rinaldi v. United States | green | “once the defendant has established that the inmate failed to resort to administrative remedies, the onus falls on the inmate to show that such remedies were unavailable to him.” | 46 |
| 7 | Casey v. Smith | green | “it is well established that 'ignorance of the law, even for an incarcerated pro se petitioner, generally does not excuse prompt filing.” | 41 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.