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← 47 F.4th 1139 - Paugh v. Uintah County

Paugh v. Uintah County’s Empirical Analysis

2022

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan · Malley v. Briggs

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “deliberate indifference entails something more than mere negligence . . . [but] something less than acts or omissions for the very purpose of causing harm or with knowledge that harm will result.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Farmer v. Brennan , 511 U.S. 825, 835 (1994). The Supreme Court has equated deliberate indifference to recklessness, in which”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “or the clearly established weight of authority from other courts have found the law to be as the plaintiff maintains.”
    1 later decision 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.