Moore v. Schuetzle

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that correspondence from city police department and from state corrections department were not constitutionally protected “legal mail” even though treated as privileged under prison’s policies
• no deliberate indifference where medical staff determined that additional surgery to improve the functioning of inmate’s finger was not medically necessary
• “In a majority of the Eighth Circuit cases involving inmate complaints that their ‘legal mail’ was opened outside their presence, the mail at issue was correspondence from an attorney or a ‘jailhouse lawyer.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

34 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Farmer v. Brennan
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 28,443×
• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Wolff v. McDonnell
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 12,327×
• Rhodes v. Chapman
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-15· cited 6,761×
• Wilson v. Seiter
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-17· cited 6,530×
• Thornburgh v. Abbott
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 1,967×
• Charles M. KEENAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Frank HALL, Director Oregon Department of Corrections, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-05-08· cited 978×
• Ramos v. Lamm
  Tenth Circuit· 1980-09-25· cited 908×
• Phil Quick v. Donaldson Company, Inc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1996-09-23· cited 565×
• Gloria Coleman v. Nurse Ruth Rahija, Nurse at Imcc--Oakdale
  Eighth Circuit· 1997-06-05· cited 469×
• Harrison Jolly v. John Knudsen, Correctional Medical Systems, Ara Services, Inc., and Jerry Jorgensen
  Eighth Circuit· 2000-03-09· cited 363×
• Dulany v. Carnahan
  Eighth Circuit· 1997-12-31· cited 330×
• Camberos v. Branstad
  Eighth Circuit· 1995-12-26· cited 283×
• Choate v. Lockhart
  Eighth Circuit· 1993-10-26· cited 223×
• Blaine Sallier v. Deborah Brooks and Christine Ramsey
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-09-18· cited 221×
• Floyd L. Roberson v. Bill Bradshaw
  Eighth Circuit· 1999-12-02· cited 164×
• Polyns Bieregu v. Janet Reno L. Yearby G. Berman, All Employees of Mail Room Staffs
  Third Circuit· 1995-09-11· cited 155×
• Clyde Weiler v. James Purkett Leah Embly
  Eighth Circuit· 1998-03-02· cited 149×
• Gardner v. Howard
  Eighth Circuit· 1997-03-12· cited 135×