Zehner v. Trigg’s Empirical Analysis
133 F.3d 459 · 1997
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Perkins v. Kansas Department of Corrections (1999), Harris v. Garner (2000)
53 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Carey v. Piphus · Owen v. City of Independence · Romer Governor of Colorado v. Evans
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No Federal civil action may be brought by a prisoner confined in a jail, prison, or other correctional facility, for mental or emotional injury suffered while in custody without a prior showing of physical injury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Constitution does not demand an individually effective remedy for every constitutional violation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The plaintiffs argue that the statute impinges upon their fundamental right of access to the courts by effectively denying them a judicial forum for their claims of emotional injury. As the district court points out, however, § 1997e(e) only limits the relief to which the plaintiffs are entitled; it does not restrict their access to the courts to press claims for which the substantive law provides an underpinning. See 952 F.Supp. at 1332. Prisoners still possess what the Supreme Court has said the Constitution requires: “a reasonably adequate opportunity to present claimed violations of fundamental constitutional rights to the courts.” Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, 350 , 116 S.Ct. 2174, 2180-2181 , 135 L.Ed.2d 606 [1996].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.