Chriceol v. Phillips

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the Court is not bound by the reasons articulated by the district court for granting summary judgment
• explaining that the Supreme Court, in Lewis, “held that an inmate alleging denial of access to courts must demonstrate an actual injury stemming from defendants’ unconstitutional conduct.”
• finding no record evidence of an actual injury on summary judgment when the plaintiff successfully filed his complaint
• (citing Lewis v. Casey, 518 U.S. 343, 351-54 (1996)); Walker v. Navarro County Jail, 4 F.3d 410, 413 (5th Cir. 1993
• suggesting that inmate would have pleaded sufficient facts to demonstrate an actual injury had he alleged that prison officials’ delay in processing his request to withdraw money from his prison account to file a civil-rights complaint prevented him from filing the complaint
• “[A]n inmate alleging denial of access to the courts must demonstrate an actual injury stemming from defendants’ unconstitutional conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Willard Rushing and Patricia Rushing v. Kansas City Southern Railway Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-08-30· cited 272×
• Freeman v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-05-07· cited 208×
• Anthony King v. Federal Bureau of Prisons and Charles Gilkey
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-07-13· cited 92×
• United States v. Fuller
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-06-16· cited 63×
• Izen v. Catalina
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-01-26· cited 40×
• Izen v. Catalina
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-08-24· cited 18×
• Kayla Segerstrom v. Kayla Segerstrom
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-03-30· cited 13×
• Izen v. Catalina
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-08-23· cited 12×
• Yaquinto v. Segerstrom
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-03-30· cited 9×
• Lindell v. McCaughtry
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-10-01· cited 7×
• Rushing v. Kansas City So
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-09-30
• Yaquinto v. Employers Fire Ins
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-02-12
• Toliver v. Travis
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2010-09-10
• Patrick Earl Conely v. Texas Board of Criminal Justice
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2011-08-31
• King, Anthony v. Fed'l Bureau Prisons
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-07-13
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2011-03-03
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  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2011-03-03
• Seace v. NH DOC et al.
  D. New Hampshire· 2001-10-22
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Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lewis v. Casey
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-24· cited 7,493×
• Turner v. Safley
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-01· cited 6,491×
• Bounds v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1977-04-27· cited 4,812×
• Pell v. Procunier
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-24· cited 2,527×
• O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-09· cited 2,176×
• Eason v. Thaler
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-01-17· cited 529×
• Van Lee Brewer, Van Lee Brewer and Claude Harris v. B. Wilkinson
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-09-22· cited 305×
• Hardy W. Ryland and Alma Odessa Ryland v. Alfred B. Shapiro, Edwin O. Ware and Edward E. Roberts, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-07-05· cited 303×
• Ruiz v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-11-20· cited 276×
• Andrew Lee Jackson v. Raymond K. Procunier, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-05-09· cited 195×
• Lewis E. Johnson v. Dale Atkins, Clerk of Court, Orleans Parish Civil District Court
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-07-14· cited 149×
• Cleveland Hicks, Jr. v. Jack M. Garner, Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-11-03· cited 141×
• Melvin A. McCabe and Mark H. Madsen v. Arvon J. Arave, Warden, Idaho State Penitentiary Al Murphy, Director, Idaho State Department of Corrections
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-09-11· cited 140×
• United States v. James Roger Gobert
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-04-16· cited 24×
• Matthews v. Morales
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-06-21· cited 21×
• Thomas v. United States Secretary of Defense
  D. Kansas· 1990-01-25· cited 4×
• Winburn v. Bologna
  W.D. Michigan· 1997-06-12· cited 3×