Stevens v. Umsted’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.3d 697 · 1997
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 27 Cal. 4th 1112 - Zelig v. County of Los Angeles (2002), Brokaw v. Mercer County (2000)
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble · Kentucky v. Graham
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`It is true that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not require a plaintiff to set out in detail the facts upon which a claim is based. Nevertheless, a plaintiff must allege sufficient facts to outline a cause of action, proof of which is essential to recovery.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]othing in the language of the Due Process Clause itself requires the State to protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens against invasion by private actors. The Clause is phrased as a limitation on the State’s power to act, not as a guarantee of certain minimal levels of safety and security. It forbids the State itself to deprive individuals of life, liberty, or property without “due process of law,” but its language cannot fairly be extended to impose an affirmative obligation on the State to ensure that those interests do not come to harm through other means.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“creates the danger or renders a person more vulnerable to an existing danger.”) (emphasis added). 8 . In Colligiton, this court noted that the police actually reduced the risk Jonathan faced because he was released to his parents, whereas prior to his arrest he was wandering the streets. Id. at 992. But that fact does not change the basic conclusion of Collignon that temporarily detaining someone, even if it causes mental distress, does not”
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.