Austin v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
328 F.3d 204 · 2003
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Easter v. Powell (2006), Betts v. New Castle Youth Development Center (2010)
4 federal appellate ·
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 Estelle v. Gamble · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth · 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[qlualified immunity is an entitlement not to stand trial or face the other burdens of litigation”)(quoting Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 526 , 105 S.Ct. 2806 , 86 L.Ed.2d 411 (1985)). 11 . Domino v. Texas Dep’t of Criminal Justice, 239 F.3d 752, 755 (5th Cir.2001). 12 . See Stewart v. Murphy, 174 F.3d 530, 533 (5th Cir.1999)(explaining that the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schafer v. Carmona“Defendants’ contention that no case has specifically proscribed the withholding of medical treatment for boot camp attendees reads the right too narrowly; officers need only have 'fair warning' that their conduct is unlawful.”). 31 . Domino, 239 F.3d at 756 . 32 . See Austin, 328 F.3d at 207 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Easter v. Powell“State defendants do not incur Eighth Amendment liability unless”
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.