No 02-2306’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 223 W. Va. 828 - Robinson v. Pack (2009), Jeffery Mays v. Ronald Sprinkle (2021)
2 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
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan · County of Sacramento v. Lewis
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hey actually must have perceived the risk”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that a substantial risk of [serious harm] was longstanding, pervasive, well-documented, or expressly noted by prison officials in the past, and the circumstances suggest that the defendant-official ... had been exposed to information concerning the risk and thus must have known about it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In response to this developing situation, .... the defendants openly mocked Odom and, through their alleged contemporaneous statements, indicated both that they recognized the risk to Odom and that they believed that he somehow deserved to be beaten. One of the officers flippantly observed that the assailants “got th[ei]r snitch;” another scolded Odom, stating, “you should not have snitched on them guys[,] you stupid [expletive].” Id. at 771 (alterations in original). In light of this direct evidence that the officers actually welcomed the harm that befell Odom and subjectively realized that the precautions they had taken were inadequate, the panel majority concluded that the evidence .... sufficiently supported a claim of deliberate indifference....”
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.