Jackson v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.3d 1149 · 1998
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Liebe v. Norton (1998), Guite v. Wright (1998)
37 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish · Malley v. Briggs
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he law was well established in 2015 ... that a prison official could be held liable if he knew of a substantial risk of serious harm to an inmate (objective component), but disregarded, or was deliberatively indifferent to, the inmate's health or safety (subjective component).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliberately indifferent to the need to protect an inmate from a substantial risk of serious harm from other inmates”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n official's failure to alleviate a significant risk that he should have perceived but did not, while no cause for commendation, cannot under our cases be condemned as the infliction of punishment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pagels v. Morrison
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.