Liebe v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.3d 574 · 1998
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 36 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Mettler v. Whitledge (1999), Reynolds v. Giuliani (2007)
31 federal appellate · 36 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · 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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant points to all of the actions which [the official] should have taken. Unfortunately, [the official] did not have the benefit of twenty-twenty hindsight, as we do now. Thus, we must examine those precautionary actions which [actually] were undertaken.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mettler v. Whitledge · No. 99-1081“cannot be both an effort to prevent suicides and, at the same time, deliberately indifferent to suicides.”
2 later decisions 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.