Corsetti v. Tessmer

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that two small bruises and minor cuts that did not require medical attention were de minimis
• explaining that the occasion use of racial slurs, “although unprofessional and reprehensible, does not rise to the level of constitutional magnitude”
• affirming dismissal of a Section 1983 claim in which the plaintiff alleged “he received only minor cuts that did not require medical attention”
• two small bruises on shoulder that did not require medical attention were de minimis injuries and not actionable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Flanory v. Bonn
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-05-06· cited 241×
• Grissom v. Davis
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-02-12· cited 36×
• Stephen Jarriett v. Julius Wilson
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-07-07· cited 35×
• Matthews v. Copeland
  M.D. Tennessee· 2017-12-11· cited 15×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Thomas v. Arn
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-27· cited 28,671×
• United States v. W. R. Walters, United States of America v. Two Hundred Sixty-Two Firearms
  Sixth Circuit· 1981-01-20· cited 6,283×
• Preiser v. Newkirk
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-25· cited 1,345×
• Linda M. Kocsis v. Multi-Care Management, Inc., D/B/A Bath Manor Special Care Centre
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-10-15· cited 753×
• Siglar v. Hightower
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-05-08· cited 630×
• Temujin Kensu v. Allen C. Haigh Tom Bell Yvonne Murzen Sandy Grant Linda Hayes
  Sixth Circuit· 1996-06-19· cited 609×
• Lawrence H. Kent v. Perry Johnson and Dale Foltz
  Sixth Circuit· 1987-08-07· cited 390×
• Hall v. Tollett
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-10-22· cited 125×
• Thinh Minh Luong v. Hatt
  N.D. Texas· 1997-09-11· cited 48×