Fletcher v. Menard Correctional Center

How courts have described this case

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

• suggesting that while a past beating could not establish imminent danger, an injury from the beating might meet the standard
• noting that courts may take judicial notice of prior proceedings in a case involving the same litigant
• approving of district court’s using evidence from a prisoner’s prior lawsuit to find that allegations of imminent danger were not true
• finding an available remedy where Illinois had created an emergency grievance procedure that expedited review of certain urgent medical complaints
• collecting cases and observing that courts may “take judicial notice of prior proceedings in a case involving the same litigant”
• taking judicial notice of judge’s ruling in prior proceeding involving the same litigant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pavey v. Conley
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-11-22· cited 321×
• Robinson v. Sherrod
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-01-26· cited 135×
• Laddy Valentine v. Bryan Collier
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-04-22· cited 117×
• Cordell Sanders v. Michael Melvin
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-10-17· cited 93×
• James Schultz v. Jeffrey Pugh
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-07-23· cited 56×
• H.A.L. NY Holdings, LLC v. Joseph Guinan, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 2020-05-05· cited 52×
• Kincaid v. Sangamon County
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-05-25· cited 12×
• Kyles v. Williams
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-03-09· cited 11×
• West Alabama Women's Center v. Williamson
  M.D. Alabama· 2015-08-13· cited 5×
• Almond v. Pollard
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-09-15· cited 1×
• Benjamin v. Ward County
  D. North Dakota· 2015-03-18
• Taylor v. Trump
  District of Columbia· 2025-05-27
• Jane Doe v. Todd Blanche
  D.C. Circuit· 2026-04-17

Cites

20 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×
• Robert Bruno Ciarpaglini v. Doctor Narinder Saini, Doctor Laurens D. Young, and Phil Kingston
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-12-11· cited 703×
• Ricky Ashley v. E. Dilworth, Co-1, Maximum Security Unit
  Eighth Circuit· 1998-06-19· cited 672×
• John Ruddin Brown v. Lisa Johnson
  Eleventh Circuit· 2004-10-18· cited 625×
• Debro S. Abdul-Akbar v. Roderick R. Mckelvie
  Third Circuit· 2001-01-29· cited 592×
• St. Louis Baptist Temple, Inc. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  Tenth Circuit· 1979-09-19· cited 536×
• Michael Massey and John Otten, M.D. v. David Helman
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-01-13· cited 393×
• Scott A. Heimermann v. Jon E. Litscher
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-07-18· cited 209×
• Kaemmerling v. Lappin
  D.C. Circuit· 2008-12-30· cited 173×
• Marcus Dixon v. Thomas Page
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-05-28· cited 165×
• Rodger Thornton v. Donald N. Snyder, Jr., Director, James M. Schomig, Warden, and Captain Josh J. Shettleworth
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-11-03· cited 164×
• Beharry v. Ashcroft
  Second Circuit· 2003-05-01· cited 143×
• MALIK v. McGINNIS
  Second Circuit· 2002-06-06· cited 114×
• Ibrahim v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 2006-09-08· cited 93×
• Amphibious Partners, LLC v. Redman
  Tenth Circuit· 2008-07-29· cited 57×
• Gary B. Campbell v. David A. Clarke, Jr.
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-04-02· cited 54×
• Guaranty Bank v. Chubb Corp.
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-07-17· cited 33×
• McALPHIN v. TONEY
  Eighth Circuit· 2002-02-20· cited 27×
• McALPHIN v. TONEY
  Eighth Circuit· 2004-07-19· cited 6×