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120 F.3d 88 · 1997

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
March 2014
most recently cited

13 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Johnson v. Doughty (2006), Ellis Henderson v. Michael F. Sheahan and J.W. Fairman (2000)

13 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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 · City of Revere v. Massachusetts General Hospital · Herrmann v. United States · City of Santa Ana v. Hernandez · Provenz v. Miller

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a finding of deliberate indifference requires evidence that the official was aware of the risk and consciously disregarded it nonetheless”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “at least as great as the Eighth Amendment protections available to a convicted prisoner.”
    1 later decision 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.