Miller v. Calhoun County’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.3d 803 · 2005
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Burgess v. Fischer (2013), Spencer v. Bouchard (2006)
14 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · Foman v. Davis
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health or safety.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a degree of culpability greater than mere negligence, but less than `acts or omissions for the very purpose of causing harm or with knowledge that harm will result.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mere allegations that an officer was improperly trained or that an injury could have been avoided with better training are insufficient to prove liability.”
2 later decisions 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.