Saunders v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Giraldo v. Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation (2008), Barratt v. Burlingham (1985)
5 district · 22 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on 27 Cal. 3d 741 - Thompson v. County of Alameda · Becker v. Beaudoin · Aldcroft v. Fidelity & Casualty Co. · Evans v. Liguori · Calhoun v. City of Providence
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Consequently, in the event that a correctional officer employed by the state was guilty of negligence and was not protected by personal immunity, the state would be liable under the doctrine of respondeat superior for the negligence of its employee subject to the monetary limitation set forth in § 9-31-2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Derderian“answer the following question. Was this failure a proximate cause of Saunders' death? Answer--Yes 3 Did defendant Mullen know of the practice of allowing some prisoners out of their cells during lockup? Answer--Yes 4 If”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was his action in permitting this practice to continue a failure to exercise reasonable care in affording Saunders adequate protection from attack? Answer--No 5 If”
1 later decision 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.