Collins v. Seeman’s Empirical Analysis
462 F.3d 757 · 2006
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Gayton v. McCoy (2010), Thomas v. Cook County Sheriff's Department (2009)
13 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Haywood v. Lucent Technologies, Inc. · Martha Sanville v. Gary McCaughtry · Woloszyn v. County of Lawrence · Duane v. Lane
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] claim based upon a violation of the Eighth Amendment has both an objective and a subjective element: (1) the harm that befell the prisoner must be objectively, sufficiently serious and a substantial risk to his or her health or safety, and (2) the individual defendants were deliberately indifferent to the substantial risk to the prisoner’s health and safety. In prison suicide cases, the objective element is met by virtue of the suicide itself, as “[i]t goes without saying that ‘suicide is a serious harm.’ ” Where the harm at issue is a suicide or attempted suicide, the second, subjective component of an Eighth Amendment claim requires a dual showing that the defendant: (1) subjectively knew the prisoner was at substantial risk of committing suicide and (2) intentionally disregarded the risk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Defendants] were aware that Collins had requested to see the crisis counsel- or, but they were not informed of the reason for the request. The undisputed facts of record indicate that inmates often request meetings with crisis counselors for reasons both serious and mundane, and sometimes make such requests as a means of manipulating prison staff. Thus, a request to see a crisis counselor, standing alone, is not sufficient to put a defendant on notice that an inmate poses a substantial and imminent risk of suicide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here the harm at issue is a suicide or attempted suicide, the second, subjective component of an Eighth Amendment claim requires a dual showing that the defendant: (1) subjectively knew the prisoner was at substantial risk of committing suicide and (2) intentionally disregarded the risk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lisle v. Welborn
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.