Gibbs v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 1206 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2019
8 federal appellate ·
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 · Halas v. Department of Energy · Kalan Inc. v. United States · McGill v. Duckworth · 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Deliberate indifference, i.e. , the subjective intent to cause harm , cannot be inferred from a prison guard's failure to act reasonably. It if it could, the standard applied would be more akin to negligence than deliberate indifference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Farmer did not squarely address the question of a prison guard's duties or obligations toward an inmate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the official knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate safety.”
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.