Adkins v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.3d 1034 · 1995
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Ernest Medina v. Michael Cram - Ralph Bruning City of Colorado Springs Loren Kramer (2001), Barney v. Pulsipher (1998)
10 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Graham v. Connor · Farmer v. Brennan · Hudson v. Palmer · Wilson v. Seiter
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“remain[ ] bounded by the Eighth Amendment, the explicit textual source of constitutional protection in the prison context.”
2 later decisions 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 majority“[Q]ualified immunity is an affirmative defense to a section 1983 action, providing immunity from suit from the outset.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Despain v. Uphoff
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.