Eugene Langston v. Howard Peters, Iii, Keith Cooper, Dwayne A. Clark, Lt. Ernest Clark, Gilberto Romero, Jr., and Lt. Lonnie Austin’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.3d 1235 · 1996
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Gutierrez v. Peters (1997), Palmer v. Marion County (2003)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Wilson v. Seiter · Hill v. Dekalb Regional Youth Detention Center
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deliberate indifference by prison officials [to the prisoner's welfare] effectively condones the attack by allowing it to happen[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[P]rison officials have a duty ... to protect prisoners from violence at the hands of other prisoners.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for liability to exist the medical need must be objectively serious”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.