Doe v. Welborn’s Empirical Analysis
110 F.3d 520 · 1997
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Bridges v. Gilbert (2009), Benefield v. McDowall (2001)
11 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
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Ornelas v. United States · Wilson v. Seiter · Rhodes v. Chapman · Hudson v. McMillian
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“showed neither physical harm nor the kind of extreme and officially sanctioned psychological harm that might support a claim for damages under the Eighth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“another way of saying that a plaintiff has the burden of proving the subjective (knowing disregard) component of the test elaborated in Farmer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Harris
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.