Fontroy v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
23 F.3d 63 · 1994
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
February 2000
most recently cited
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Helling v. McKinney · Maryland v. Craig · Johnson v. Brown · Maryland v. Craig · Stoneking v. Bradford Area School District
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Supreme Court [in Helling] did not have occasion to comment on the request for damages by a plaintiff who alleged only risk of future injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Assuming that [the cases cited by the defendants] hold that a civil rights plaintiff cannot prevail on a claim of mere exposure to asbestos, this case is distinguishable. Plaintiff here claims an injury; a claim which Defendants have not disproved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fontroy v. Owens“that [an] inmate's involuntary exposure to asbestos does not raise an Eighth Amendment claim absent present injury,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fontroy v. Owens
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.