Calhoun v. Detella’s Empirical Analysis
319 F.3d 936 · 2003
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Hughes v. Lott (2003), Boxer X v. Harris (2006)
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Carey v. Piphus · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit · Hudson v. McMillian · Smith v. Wade
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for mental or emotional injury . . . without a prior showing of physical injury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“§ 1997e(e), as the plain language of the statute would suggest, limits recovery `for mental and emotional injury,' but leaves unaffected claims for nominal and punitive damages, which seek to remedy a different type of injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“conducted in a harassing manner intended to humiliate and inflict psychological pain.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Leiser v. Kloth · Fillmore v. Page
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.