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Jennifer Neal Personal Representative of the Estate of Deceased Willie Neal Jr v. St Louis County Board of’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
October 2020
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2020

1 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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 Daniels v. Williams · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Washington v. Glucksberg · Brodnicki v. City of Omaha · Royal E. Claybrook, Jr. v. Jesse Birchwell

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “in rapidly evolving, fluid, and dangerous situations which preclude the luxury of calm and reflective deliberation, [an official]'s action will shock the conscience only if the [official] intended to cause harm,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “is afforded a reasonable opportunity to deliberate . . . the chosen action will be deemed `conscience shocking' if the action was taken with `deliberate indifference'”
    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.