Burrell v. Hampshire County’s Empirical Analysis
307 F.3d 1 · 2002
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 75 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Surprenant v. Rivas (2005), Ruiz-Rosa v. Rullán (2007)
16 federal appellate · 75 district · 3 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish · City of Canton v. Harris · Kentucky v. Graham
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the standard for determining criminal recklessness.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, the deprivation alleged must be, objectively, sufficiently serious.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Prison officials cannot be indifferent, of course, if they are unaware of the risk. But even if they are aware, they cannot be deliberately indifferent if they responded reasonably to the risk, even if the harm ultimately was not avoided. Conceivably, a response that was color-able and taken in good faith might still be enough to negate deliberate indifference even if it were inadequate from an objective standpoint (and thus negligent).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kendall v. Murray · Madison v. Cruz
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.