Canell v. Lightner’s Empirical Analysis
143 F.3d 1210 · 1998
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Geiger v. Jowers (2005), Oliver v. Keller (2002)
32 federal appellate · 10 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · City of Canton v. Harris · Lindh v. Murphy · O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz · County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] prisoner is entitled to judicial relief for a violation of his First Amendment rights aside from any physical, mental, or emotional injury he may have sustained.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o federal civil action may be brought . . . for mental or emotional injury . . . without a prior showing of physical injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the plain language of § 1915(g) restricts a prisoner's ability to 'bring a civil action or appeal a judgment in a civil action' in forma pauperis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibbs v. Ryan
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.