Wayne LaFountain v. Shirlee Harry

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that district courts must screen a complaint filed by an indigent non-prisoner under § 1915(e)(2
• holding that “[u]nder Rule 15(a) a district court can allow a plaintiff to amend his complaint . . . .”
• holding that “[u]nder Rule 15(a) a district court can allow a plaintiff to amend his complaint . . . .”
• holding that district courts must screen a complaint filed by an indigent non-prisoner under § 1915(e)(2
• holding that “[u]nder Rule 15(a) a district court can allow a plaintiff to amend his complaint even when the complaint is subject to dismissal under the PLRA”
• holding that “[u]nder Rule 15(a) a district court can allow a plaintiff to amend his complaint even when the complaint is subject to dismissal under the PLRA”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  Sixth Circuit· 2013-07-10· cited 506×
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  E.D. Arkansas· 2016-11-17· cited 134×
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  Sixth Circuit· 2014-12-17· cited 84×
• Lyle Heyward v. Heather Cooper
  Sixth Circuit· 2023-12-13· cited 42×
• Andre Coleman v. Todd Tollefson
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-10-23· cited 21×
• Rayburn v. Blue
  W.D. Kentucky· 2015-12-08· cited 16×
• Meeks v. Schofield
  M.D. Tennessee· 2014-03-31· cited 12×
• Maxberry v. University of Kentucky Medical Center
  E.D. Kentucky· 2014-08-07· cited 5×
• Nolen v. Fedex Techconnect, Inc.
  W.D. Tennessee· 2013-09-04· cited 3×
• Obergefell v. Wymyslo
  S.D. Ohio· 2013-11-01· cited 1×
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Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Heck v. Humphrey
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-24· cited 15,294×
• Jones v. Bock
  Supreme Court· 2007-01-22· cited 10,443×
• Darryl McGore v. Gene L. Wrigglesworth, Chief Sheriff Richard Chinelli, Administrator Ingham County Sheriff's Department
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-06-11· cited 5,495×
• Wilkinson v. Dotson
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-07· cited 2,909×
• Thaddeus-X and Earnest Bell, Jr. v. Blatter
  Sixth Circuit· 1999-03-08· cited 2,642×
• Edwards v. Balisok
  Supreme Court· 1997-05-19· cited 2,485×
• Earnest Bell, Jr. v. Robert Johnson, Mark Stimpson Allen Blatter
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-10-17· cited 626×
• John Ruddin Brown v. Lisa Johnson
  Eleventh Circuit· 2004-10-18· cited 625×
• Anthony N. Smith v. Knox County Jail
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-01-23· cited 592×
• Jerald Thomas v. Unknown Eby
  Sixth Circuit· 2007-03-30· cited 538×
• Mary A. Bart v. William C. Telford
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-05-12· cited 441×
• Davis v. Prison Health Services
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-05-10· cited 355×
• Hale v. King
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-05-26· cited 323×
• Bishop v. Lucent Technologies, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-03-25· cited 287×
• Carl R. Kramer v. Village of North Fond Du Lac and Larry Wodack
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-09-27· cited 183×
• Darrell Siggers-El v. David Barlow
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-06-24· cited 173×
• Smith v. Yarrow
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-10-20· cited 121×
• Ashland, Inc. v. Oppenheimer & Co., Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 2011-07-28· cited 79×
• Anthony Boone v. Phillip Spurgess A/K/A Philip Spurgus
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-10-04· cited 74×
• Ryan v. Department of Corrections
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2003-12-11· cited 10×