Napier v. Madison County’s Empirical Analysis
238 F.3d 739 · 2001
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Estate of Carter v. City of Detroit (2005), Blackmore v. Kalamazoo County (2004)
19 federal appellate · 2 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · 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.
“must show that his civil rights were violated pursuant to and as a direct result of the county’s official policy or custom. The burden in this regard requires a showing that the unconstitutional policy or custom existed, that the policy or custom was connected to the county, and that the policy or custom caused his constitutional violation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The objective component requires a[] [detainee] to show that the alleged deprivation is “sufficiently serious.” As the Supreme Court explained in [Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 834 , 114 S.Ct. 1970 , 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994)], “The [detainee] must show that he is incarcerated under conditions posing a substantial risk of serious harm.” To satisfy the subjective component, a[] [detainee] must show that [officials] had a “sufficiently culpable state of mind.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must 'place verifying medical evidence in the record to establish the detrimental effect of the delay in medical treatment.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rhinehart v. Scutt · Johnson II
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.