Williams v. O'Leary’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 320 · 1995
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Richardson v. McKnight (1997), Estate of Cole Pardue v. Fromm (1996)
27 federal appellate · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Alder v. United States · Wyatt v. Cole · In re Miller
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health or safety; the official must both be aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exists, and he must also draw the inference.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Sango · Taylor v. Dutton“it would have been obvious to a doctor in the defendants' positions that their actions amounted to a constitutional violation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“performing duties that would otherwise have to be performed by a public official who clearly would have qualified immunity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Murphy
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.