Brooks v. Celeste’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.3d 125 · 1994
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Coe v. Bell (1998), Berryman v. Rieger (1998)
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Wilson v. Seiter · Whitley v. Albers
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]ndue delay in filing, lack of notice to the opposing party, bad faith by the moving party, repeated failure to cure deficiencies by previous amendments, undue prejudice to the opposing party, and futility of amendments....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a prison official had the requisite knowledge of a substantial risk is a question of fact subject to demonstration in the usual ways, including inference from circumstantial evidence ... and a factfinder may conclude that a prison official knew of a substantial risk from the very fact that the risk was obvious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. at 1980 (quoting Model Penal Code Sec. 2.02(2)(c) (1985)). Thus, a showing of deliberate indifference requires a showing of the official's actual awareness of a substantial risk of serious harm. Id. at 1981. 9 Brooks, 39 F.3d at 128. This Court also observed in Brooks that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berryman v. Epp
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.