Eric Martin v. William Overton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that even pro se litigants must comply with the basic procedural requirements for bringing civil claims
• holding that even pro se litigants must comply with the basic procedural requirements for bringing civil claims
• holding that district court should have dismissed petitioner’s § 2241 petition without prejudice to allow him to raise civil rights claims properly under § 1983
• holding that even pro se litigants must comply with the basic procedural requirements for bringing civil claims
• concluding that the Castro notice-and-warning requirement applies to \petitions recharacterized as § 2254 petitions\
• holding that the district court should dismiss an improperly-filed § 2241 petition without prejudice to allow the petitioner to re-file his claims in a civil rights case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

27 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Williams v. Curtin
  Sixth Circuit· 2011-01-31· cited 1,364×
• Craig Wilson v. Mark Williams
  Sixth Circuit· 2020-06-09· cited 517×
• Nathaniel Brent v. Wayne Cty. Dep't of Human Servs.
  Sixth Circuit· 2018-08-23· cited 276×
• Boutwell v. Keating
  Tenth Circuit· 2005-02-23· cited 198×
• James Luedtke v. David Berkebile
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-01-16· cited 190×
• Davis v. Roberts
  Tenth Circuit· 2005-09-21· cited 180×
• Robinson v. Sherrod
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-01-26· cited 135×
• Johnny O. Clark v. Robert Waller
  Sixth Circuit· 2007-06-25· cited 108×
• West v. Bell
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-12-18· cited 76×
• Fletcher Small v. Officer Brock
  Sixth Circuit· 2020-06-26· cited 61×
• Lyle Heyward v. Heather Cooper
  Sixth Circuit· 2023-12-13· cited 42×
• Damon Raines v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 2018-07-31· cited 32×
• United States v. Dimitar Petlechkov
  Sixth Circuit· 2023-06-28· cited 27×
• Prentice Sanders v. Dylon Radtke
  Seventh Circuit· 2022-09-01· cited 24×
• Karl Kraus, Jr. v. Clark Taylor
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-05-03· cited 16×
• Alfonso Ponton v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2018-06-04· cited 16×
• Burley v. Miller
  E.D. Michigan· 2017-03-13· cited 13×
• Rickmyer v. Browne
  D. Minnesota· 2014-02-05· cited 10×
• In re McFadden
  N.D. Ohio· 2012-07-19· cited 9×
• Donaldson v. BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P.
  M.D. Tennessee· 2011-08-24· cited 7×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Haines v. Kerner
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-22· cited 26,103×
• Wells v. Brown
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-12-12· cited 2,128×
• James M. Jourdan, Jr. v. John Jabe and L. Boyd
  Sixth Circuit· 1991-12-16· cited 1,639×
• Castro v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2003-12-15· cited 1,352×
• Torrance Pilgrim v. John Littlefield
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-08-07· cited 956×
• Samantha Sistrunk v. City of Strongsville and Bush-Quayle '92 Committee, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-01-02· cited 783×
• Erwin v. Edwards
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-12-04· cited 316×
• United States v. Quentin Miller, A/K/A \Q\ Quentin Miller
  Third Circuit· 1999-12-22· cited 298×
• Alonzo Cook v. New York State Division of Parole, and New York State Board of Parole
  Second Circuit· 2003-02-25· cited 226×
• Benjamin Urbina v. Maryellen Thoms, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-10-17· cited 221×
• Eric Adams v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1998-08-20· cited 181×
• Jerry Mason v. Robert W. Meyers Attorney General of Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 2000-03-20· cited 167×
• Guy Billy Lee Scott v. Terry Collins, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-03-25· cited 72×
• Howard H. Steverson v. Paul G. Summers
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-07-25· cited 44×
• In Re Denny Roy Shelton, Jr., Movant
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-07-10· cited 22×