Velez v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
395 F.3d 732 · 2005
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2024
7 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 Anderson v. Creighton · Farmer v. Brennan · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Johnson v. Jones
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What matters is that [the defendant] was aware of a serious risk of harm in some form.... [J]ust because [the plaintiff] did not volunteer detailed information does not mean that [the defendant] was not made aware of a serious risk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Labrec v. Meeker
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.