Atkinson v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
316 F.3d 257 · 2003
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Betts v. New Castle Youth Development Center (2010), Argueta v. United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement (2011)
13 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 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. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant in a civil rights action must have personal involvement in the alleged wrongs .... [P]ersonal involvement can be shown through allegations of personal direction or of actual knowledge and acquiescence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. Thomas“one that has been diagnosed by a physician as requiring treatment or one that is so obvious that a lay person would easily recognize the necessity for a doctor's attention”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“where the denial of treatment would result in the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain or a life-long handicap or permanent loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.