45 F. Supp. 2d 709 - Mason v. Schriro’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2010
3 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Turner v. Safley · Washington v. Davis · Carey v. Piphus
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“adopt an interpretation of section 1997e(e) under which the availability of judicial remedies for the violations of constitutional rights would be restricted to the point where Congress would in essence be taking away the rights themselves by rendering them utterly hollow promises.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No Federal civil action may be brought by a prisoner ... for mental or emotional injury suffered while in custody without a prior showing of physical injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“help bring relief to a civil justice system overburdened by frivolous prisoner lawsuits ... and will ensure that Federal court orders are limited to remedying actual violations of prisoners' rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Royal v. Kautzky
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.