Harper v. Showers’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.3d 716 · 1999
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Geiger v. Jowers (2005), Mitchell v. Horn (2003)
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Hudson v. Palmer · Sandin v. Conner · Denton v. Hernandez · Helling v. McKinney
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 149 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 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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court may dismiss as frivolous the complaint of a prisoner proceeding in forma paurperis if it lacks an arguable basis in law or fact.... We review the dismissal of a frivolous complaint for abuse of discretion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A complaint lacks an arguable basis in law if it is based on an indisputably meritless legal theory, such as if the complaint alleges the violation of a legal interest which clearly does not exist.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.