Harris v. Coweta County’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 388 · 1994
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Farrow v. West (2003), Hill v. Dekalb Regional Youth Detention Center (1994)
28 federal appellate ·
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 · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The tolerable length of delay in providing medical attention depends on the nature of the medical need and the reason for the delay.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] few hours' delay in receiving medical care for emergency needs such as broken bones and bleeding cuts may constitute deliberate indifference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A ruling denying qualified immunity does not render the [defendant] liable for deliberate indifference. It means only that the claims against the [defendant] may proceed to trial. When the qualified immunity entitlement is lost at the summary judgment stage, additional or different facts may be discovered or developed regarding the trial questions of liability and damages. See Swint [v. City of Wadley], 5 F.3d [1435,] 1438-39 [(11th Cir.1993)]. At trial the facts regarding deliberate indifference may be further developed, e.g., Howell v. Burden, 12 F.3d 190 , 192 n. 2 (11th Cir.1994), and the jury will determine whether the [defendant] was or was not deliberately indifferent to [plaintiff's] medical needs.”
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.