Poe v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
282 F.3d 123 · 2002
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 40 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Caldarola v. Calabrese (2002), Velez v. Levy (2005)
43 federal appellate · 40 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Anderson v. Creighton · Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., et al. v. Patrick Carmichael, Etc., et al. · County of Sacramento v. Lewis
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a supervisor may be found liable for his deliberate indifference to the rights of others ... for his gross negligence in failing to supervise his subordinates who commit such wrongful acts, provided that the plaintiff can show an affirmative causal link between the supervisor’s inaction and her injury.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]laintiff must show that the defendant knew or should have known that there was a high degree of risk that his subordinates would behave inappropriately, but either deliberately or recklessly disregarded that risk by failing to take action that a reasonable supervisor would find necessary to prevent such a risk, and that failure caused a constitutional injury to Plaintiff.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if their actions were objectively reasonable, as evaluated in the context of legal rules that were `clearly established' at the time.”
4 later decisions 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.