Michael Smith v. Schwarzenegger’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Helling v. McKinney · Herman Resnick v. Warden Hayes Lt. Ernst Officer Myers (Dho) Counselor Aune Officer Wade · Reddy v. Litton Industries, Inc. · McShane v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“Plaintiff has failed to ’show that any of the named Defendants were deliberately indifferent to a serious risk of harm to Plaintiffs health. Plaintiff does not allege that Defendants were aware of a particular threat to Plaintiffs health or that Plaintiff has been harmed as the result of Defendants’ actions or failure to act. Plaintiff alleges only that Defendants are aware of the general presence of valley fever in the areas in which Plaintiff is housed and that Plaintiff may contract valley fever. This is insufficient to establish an Eighth Amendment violation.”
2 later decisions 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.