Longoria v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
473 F.3d 586 · 2006
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably West v. Tillman (2007), Morgan v. Gusman (2009)
6 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Farmer v. Brennan · Johnson v. Jones · Behrens v. Pelletier
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f [two prison officials] had indeed received repeated warnings from [the inmate who was attacked by another inmate], including the currently unauthenticated letter in which [the attacked inmate] details the ... plot to kill him and his fear of remaining in lockdown with his putative murderers, [the prison officials] might have been aware of facts from which inferences suggesting deliberate indifference could be drawn”); Adames v. Perez, 331 F.3d 508 , 512 (5th Cir.2003) (recognizing that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'an inmate must show that he is incarcerated under conditions posing a substantial risk of serious harm’ and that prison officials were deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s safety.” Longoria, 473 F.3d at 592 (quoting Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 834 , 114 S.Ct. 1970 , 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994)). Prison officials act with deliberate indifference if they are subjec-lively”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no rule of constitutional law [that] requires unarmed officials to endanger their own safety in order to protect a prison inmate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arenas v. Calhoun
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.