Martinez v. Beggs’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.3d 1082 · 2009
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 20 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Thomson v. Salt Lake County (2009), Estate of Booker v. Gomez (2014)
25 federal appellate · 20 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Pearson v. Callahan · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al.
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant asserts qualified immunity at summary judgment, the burden shifts to the plaintiff to show that: (1) the defendant violated a constitutional right and (2) the constitutional right was clearly established.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Becker v. Bateman · Lee v. Tucker“which of the two prongs of the qualified immunity analysis should be addressed first in light of the circumstances in the particular case at hand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The objective component of the test is met if the “harm suffered rises to a level’ sufficiently serious’ to be cognizable under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause” of the Eighth Amendment. ... [I]t is the harm claimed by the prisoner that must be sufficiently serious to satisfy the objective component, and not solely “the symptoms presented at the time the prison employee has contact with the prisoner.””
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.