Langford v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
614 F.3d 445 · 2010
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Anderson v. Creighton · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the duty to furnish treatment is unfulfilled, the mere contracting of services with an independent contractor does not immunize the State from liability for damages in failing to provide a prisoner with the opportunity for such treatment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a prisoner needs medical treatment prison officials are under a constitutional duty to see that it is furnished.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“More precisely, we have jurisdiction to consider the 'purely legal' issue of whether the facts, taken in the light most favorable to [Thompson], support a finding that [Singleton] violated [Thompson's] clearly established constitutional rights.”
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.