Butler v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis
465 F.3d 340 · 2006
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“hold that deliberate indifference is the appropriate standard of culpability for all claims that prison officials failed to provide pretrial detainees with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and reasonable safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the proper inquiry is whether those conditions amount to punishment of the detainee.”
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.