Del Raine v. Williford’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.3d 1024 · 1994
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Sanchez v. Pereira-Castillo (2009), Chandler v. Crosby (2004)
53 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 471 · 28 U.S.C. § 561 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health or safety; the official must both be aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exists, and he must also draw the inference.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Thomas v. Clark · Poole v. Yeazel“a balancing of the need for the particular search against the invasion of personal rights that the search entails,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.