Callahan v. Poppell

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “a prisoner must have suffered ‘acts or omissions sufficiently harmful to evidence deliberate indifference to serious medical needs’ ” (quoting Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 106, 97 S.Ct. 285, 50 L.Ed.2d 251 (1976))
• acknowledging that Oklahoma has not waived sovereign immunity against § 1983 claims in federal district court and affirming district court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s official-capacity claims when plaintiff sought only damages, not prospective relief
• declining to consider claims omitted from pro se litigant’s amended pleading
• prisoners do not have an Eighth Amendment right to a particular course of treatment
• “When a suit alleges a claim against a state official in his official capacity, the real party in interest . . . is the state, and the state may raise the defense of sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment.” (quotations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Tenth Circuit· 2019-08-20· cited 411×
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  Tenth Circuit· 2009-04-21· cited 376×
• Quintana v. Santa Fe County Board of Comm.
  Tenth Circuit· 2020-08-28· cited 129×
• Snell v. Neville
  First Circuit· 2021-05-25· cited 46×
• Castillo v. Day
  Tenth Circuit· 2015-06-22· cited 44×
• United States v. Samuels
  Tenth Circuit· 2007-07-09· cited 31×
• Adams. v. Jones
  Tenth Circuit· 2014-08-25· cited 21×
• Hunter v. Young
  Tenth Circuit· 2007-06-12· cited 21×
• Elrod v. Swanson
  D. Kansas· 2007-03-19· cited 18×
• Gaston v. Ploeger
  Tenth Circuit· 2007-04-12· cited 18×
• McMillan v. Wiley
  D. Colorado· 2011-09-14· cited 10×
• Bruner-McMahon v. Hinshaw
  D. Kansas· 2012-01-18· cited 9×
• Cummings v. Ellsworth Correctional Facility
  Tenth Circuit· 2013-02-26· cited 3×
• Strope v. Collins
  D. Kansas· 2007-06-15· cited 2×
• Kneen v. Zavaras
  D. Colorado· 2012-06-07· cited 2×
• Graham v. Van Dycke
  D. Kansas· 2008-07-10
• Hardy v. Rabie
  Tenth Circuit· 2025-08-04

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Link v. Wabash Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 14,398×
• Leon Snipes v. George Detella, Doctor Ehrhardt, John L. Russian
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-09-09· cited 885×
• Green v. Branson
  Tenth Circuit· 1997-03-14· cited 430×
• Dulany v. Carnahan
  Eighth Circuit· 1997-12-31· cited 330×
• In Re Bill W. Rains, Also Known as Billy Wayne Rains, Debtor. Dale A. Ruplinger v. Bill W. Rains, Also Known as Billy Wayne Rains
  Tenth Circuit· 1991-10-07· cited 247×
• Marguerite HICKS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the GATES RUBBER COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee
  Tenth Circuit· 1991-03-22· cited 188×
• Yu Kikumura v. Osagie
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-09-08· cited 182×
• Carpenter v. Boeing Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-08-07· cited 150×
• Garrett v. Fleming
  Tenth Circuit· 2004-03-30· cited 137×
• Branson School District Re-82 v. Romer
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-11-20· cited 111×
• Gilles v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1990-06-22· cited 107×