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335 F.3d 553 · 2003

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
February 2021
most recently cited

16 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Woodward v. Correctional Medical Services of Illinois, Inc. (2004), Minix v. Canarecci (2010)

16 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Martha Sanville v. Gary McCaughtry · Estate of Shannon Novack v. County of Wood, a Municipal Corporation

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “more than mere or gross negligence, but less than purposeful infliction of harm.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[w]here the harm at issue is a suicide or attempted suicide, the second, subjective component of an Eighth Amendment claim requires a dual showing that the defendant: (1) subjectively knew the prisoner was at substantial risk of committing suicide and (2) intentionally disregarded the risk.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[N]ot every prisoner who shows signs of depression or exhibits strange behavior can or should be put on suicide watch.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.