Young v. Selk’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.3d 868 · 2007
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Amrine v. Brooks (2008), Baribeau v. City of Minneapolis (2010)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Farmer v. Brennan · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Hope v. Pelzer
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.
“[1] an objective component, [that] there was a substantial risk of harm to the inmate, and [2] a subjective component, [that] the prison official was deliberately indifferent to that risk.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires prison officials to 'take reasonable measures to guarantee' inmate safety by protecting them from attacks by other prisoners.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there need not be a case with materially or fundamentally similar facts in order for a reasonable person to know that his or her conduct would violate the Constitution.”
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.