Case v. Ahitow’s Empirical Analysis
301 F.3d 605 · 2002
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
July 2016
most recently cited
20 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Hayes v. New York City Department of Corrections · Marsh v. Butler County · Fischl v. Armitage · Babcock v. White
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he test is whether the guards know that the plaintiff inmate faces a serious danger to his safety and they could avert the danger easily yet they fail to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the defendants knew that [one inmate] posed a serious danger to [another inmate] and they could have averted the danger easily”
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.