Rish v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.3d 1092 · 1997
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Betts v. New Castle Youth Development Center (2010), Shannon v. Graves (2001)
11 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton · Farmer v. Brennan
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.
“it is ... necessary first to identify the specific constitutional right allegedly violated, then to inquire whether at the time of the alleged violation it was clearly established, then further to inquiry whether a reasonable person in the official’s position would have known that his conduct would violate that right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ross v. Keelings“applying an objective qualified immunity standard in the context of an Eighth Amendment claim that is satisfied only by a showing of deliberate indifference” — that is, a knowing violation of the law — presents a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Cox v. Quinn“prison officials[must] know of and disregard an objectively serious condition, medical need, or risk of harm”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Quinones
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.