Mackay v. Farnsworth’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.3d 491 · 1995
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Winfield v. G.L. Bass (1997), Despain v. Uphoff (2001)
9 federal appellate · 5 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 Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish · Whitley v. Albers · Hudson v. McMillian · Johnson v. Glick
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here, the undisputed facts show no deliberate indifference on the part of prison officials. Defendants knew plaintiff faced a risk of harm. The measures they took to abate that harm were reasonable. Plaintiff admitted the guards were successful in attempting to break up the fight verbally. In deciding not to physically intervene immediately, the guards observed that plaintiff and the other inmate were evenly matched and that the shank was ineffective. Finally, defendants called for additional staff and medical personnel and thus were preparing to intervene when sufficient staff was available in accordance with prison policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prison official may be held liable under the Eighth Amendment for denying humane conditions of confinement only if he knows that inmates face a substantial risk of serious harm and disregards that risk by failing to take reasonable measures to abate it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hilton v. Zavaras“[p]rison officials have a duty ... to protect prisoners from violence at the hands of other prisoners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hilton v. Zavaras
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.