Browning v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2009
2 federal appellate · 11 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 King v. Brown · Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York v. Branton · Panhandle & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Friend · Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Ferris · Southern Underwriters v. Boswell
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule gathered from the cases which have considered the ques tion as to liability of an officer in charge of the jail or prison for an injury inflicted by one prisoner upon another prisoner is that, in order to hold the officer liable for such injuries, there must be knowledge on the part of such officer that such injury will be inflicted or good reason to anticipate danger thereof, and negligence in failing to prevent the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is conceded that it is the duty of the officer to use all reasonable efforts to protect his prisoner from harm while in his custody....”). 37 .Id. at 519 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is not unreasonable to assume that the prisoners would again make and possess [the weapons]....”). 39 . Id. (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.