Cavalieri v. Shepard’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.3d 616 · 2003
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably Palmer v. Marion County (2003), Williams v. Rodriguez (2007)
29 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he right Mrs. Cavalieri asserts on behalf of Steven is the right to be free from deliberate indifference to suicide. There is no doubt that this right was clearly established prior to Steven's suicide attempt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lisle v. Welborn · Labrec v. Meeker“as a pretrial detainee, [plaintiff] was entitled to at least the same protection against deliberate indifference to his basic needs as is available to convicted prisoners under the Eighth Amendment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murphy v. Raoul“take perfect action or even reasonable action[,] . . . his action must be reckless before § 1983 liability can be found.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collins v. Seeman
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.