107 F.3d -1035 - Lewis v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
107 F.3d 549 · 1997
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2018
15 federal appellate ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Heck v. Humphrey · Rhodes v. Chapman · City of Revere v. Massachusetts General Hospital · McGill v. Duckworth
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When instructing juries in deliberate indifference cases with such issues of proof, courts should be careful to ensure that the requirement of subjective culpability is not lost. It is not enough to merely find that a reasonable person would have known, or that the defendant should have known, and juries should be instructed accordingly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In view of the Supreme Court, the safeguard against jurors whose outrage at prison violence might lead them to sanction officials in the absence of an Eighth Amendment violation is not a relaxed summary judgment standard, but jury instructions that properly convey the applicable law. Lower federal courts, in my view, should exhibit a similar faith in the willingness of juries to follow the law.”). 5 . Major Lawrence Jefferson was clear that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Riccardo v. Rausch“specifically seek protection from the two inmates who assaulted him ..., identify the twenty gang members who threatened him ..., or inform authorities of the threats which were made against him”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sinn v. Lemmon
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.