Clark-Murphy v. Foreback’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.3d 280 · 2006
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Harrison v. Ash (2008), Stoudemire v. Michigan Department of Corrections (2013)
8 federal appellate · 1 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 · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan · Hudson v. Palmer
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prison official cannot be found liable under the Eighth Amendment for deny ing an inmate humane conditions of confinement unless the official knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health or safety; the official must both be aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exists, and he must also draw that inference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Farmer v. Brennan , 511 U.S. 825 , 834, 114 S.Ct. 1970 , 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994). Thus,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Richmond v. Huq
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.