Ortiz v. Cornetta

How courts have described this case

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

• “[o]nce a pro se litigant has done everything possible to bring his action, he should not be penalized by strict rules which might otherwise apply if he were represented by counsel”
• “Once a pro se litigant has done everything possible to bring his action, he should not be penalized by strict rules which might otherwise apply if he were represented by counsel”
• “Once a pro se litigant has done everything possible to bring his action, he should not be penalized by strict rules which might otherwise apply if he were represented by counsel.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Galimore v. City University of New York Bronx Community College
  S.D. New York· 2009-07-02· cited 30×
• Massie v. Metropolitan Museum of Art
  S.D. New York· 2009-08-28· cited 24×
• Clement v. United Homes, LLC
  E.D. New York· 2012-12-27· cited 21×
• Old Republic Insurance v. Hansa World Cargo Service, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1999-06-01· cited 20×
• Gittens v. Garlocks Sealing Technologies
  W.D. New York· 1998-10-02· cited 16×
• Morris v. People's Republic of China
  S.D. New York· 2007-03-21· cited 14×
• United States v. $175,918.00 in United States Currency
  S.D. New York· 1991-02-04· cited 14×
• Smith v. City of New York
  S.D. New York· 2013-12-16· cited 11×
• Levy v. Lerner
  E.D. New York· 1994-05-26· cited 10×
• Wojik v. Postmaster General
  S.D. New York· 1993-01-19· cited 10×
• Webster v. Potter
  S.D. New York· 2010-10-27· cited 10×
• Discover Group, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2004-09-02· cited 10×
• Friedman v. Wheat First Securities Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1999-09-14· cited 6×
• Respass v. New York City Police Department
  E.D. New York· 1994-05-19· cited 5×
• Harris v. American Protective Services of New York, Inc.
  W.D. New York· 1998-03-27· cited 5×
• Parks v. Office of Temporary & Disability Assistance
  S.D. New York· 2009-12-23· cited 2×
• D'JAMOOS v. Griffith
  E.D. New York· 2005-05-09· cited 2×
• United States v. United States Currency in the Amount of Seven Thousand Five Hundred Thirty-One Dollars ($7, 531)
  E.D. New York· 1989-07-13· cited 2×
• Securities & Exchange Commission v. Princeton Economic International Ltd.
  S.D. New York· 2000-02-16· cited 1×
• Adams v. New Rochelle Hospital Medical Center
  S.D. New York· 1996-03-25· cited 1×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Conley v. Gibson
  Supreme Court· 1957-11-18· cited 30,380×
• Haines v. Kerner
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-22· cited 26,103×
• Houston v. Lack
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-24· cited 6,563×
• Hishon v. King & Spalding
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-22· cited 5,292×
• Cruz v. Beto
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-20· cited 2,756×
• Bankers Trust Company v. Daniel Rhoades, Herman Soifer and Milton Braten
  Second Circuit· 1988-10-03· cited 425×
• Judy C. EGELSTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AT GENESEO Et Al., Defendants-Appellees
  Second Circuit· 1976-06-07· cited 184×
• Williams v. Ward
  Second Circuit· 1977-05-26· cited 126×
• Jamil Abdul-Alim Amin v. Universal Life Insurance Company of Memphis, Tennessee
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-06-06· cited 83×
• Ortiz v. Cornetta
  Second Circuit· 1989-02-06· cited 52×
• Tommie L. Toliver v. County of Sullivan, Richard L. Green, Lloyd T. Shimer, Leon Siegel, Brian Ingber
  Second Circuit· 1988-03-07· cited 51×