Alexander v. Tippah County MS

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that two inmates could not recover damages from their temporary exposure to “deplorable conditions” because the only injury alleged was nausea from the smell of raw sewage
• referring to conditions as “deplorable” where inmates punished for fighting were transferred to a similar cell, sewage littered the cell, it was freezing, and inmates were unable to wash their hands before eating

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dillon v. Rogers
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-02-04· cited 526×
• Darnell Wilson v. Christopher Epps, Commissioner
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-01-08· cited 83×
• Wicker v. Lawless
  S.D. Ohio· 2017-09-30· cited 19×
• Almond v. Tarver
  E.D. Texas· 2006-08-15· cited 17×
• Desroche v. Strain
  E.D. Louisiana· 2007-08-16· cited 11×
• Debrew v. Atwood
  District of Columbia· 2012-03-19· cited 11×
• Zebrowski v. United States Federal Bureau of Prisons
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-02-27· cited 9×
• Gilmore v. Bostic
  S.D. West Virginia· 2009-03-27· cited 8×
• Eason v. Frye
  S.D. Mississippi· 2013-09-18· cited 4×
• Kossie v. Crain
  S.D. Texas· 2009-04-09· cited 2×
• Alexander v. Tippah County, Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 2004-04-26
• Irby v. Nueces County Sheriff
  S.D. Texas· 2011-05-11
• Holloman v. Maine
  District of Columbia· 2018-12-07
• Brown v. State of Mississippi Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-02-18
• Alexander v. Taft
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-07-10
• Alexander v. Taft
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-12-23

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Porter v. Nussle
  Supreme Court· 2002-02-26· cited 4,960×
• Booth v. Churner
  Supreme Court· 2001-05-29· cited 3,581×
• Hutto v. Finney
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-15· cited 2,261×
• Siglar v. Hightower
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-05-08· cited 630×
• Harper v. Showers
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-05-24· cited 457×
• Woods v. Edwards
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-05-11· cited 307×
• Herman v. Holiday
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-02-02· cited 253×
• Robert Davis v. Wayne Scott, Director v. Unidentified Dawson, Correction Officer III Unidentified Crowder, Correction Officer, III
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-10-22· cited 236×
• Palmer v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-10-19· cited 184×
• Days v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-03-10· cited 138×
• Wright v. Hollingsworth
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-02-10· cited 86×
• Clifford v. Gibbs
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-08-01· cited 78×