Robinson v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.3d 747 · 1999
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Jones v. Bock (2007), Dawes v. Walker (2001)
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1997E
Relies on Helling v. McKinney · Siglar II v. Hightower · Davis v. District of Columbia · Zehner v. Trigg · Redland Soccer Club, Inc. v. Department of Army of United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o Federal civil action may be brought ... for mental or emotional injury ... without a prior showing of physical injury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Id. at 748. Robinson observed that, 43 [t]o go further and dismiss the entire suit because it had one bad claim would be not only gratuitous, but also contrary to the fundamental procedural norm that when a complaint has both good and bad claims ... only the bad claims are dismissed; the complaint as a whole is not. If Congress meant to depart from this norm, we would expect some indication of that, and we find none. 44 Id. at 748-49. We agree with this reasoning and find it fully applicable to § 1997e(a). 45 In sum, the use of the term”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Turley v. Gaetz · Lira v. Herrera“[i]t would be a serious mistake to interpret section 1997e(e) to require a showing of physical injury in all prisoner civil rights suits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.