Williams v. Curtin’s Empirical Analysis
631 F.3d 380 · 2011
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Graham v. Connor · Wilson v. Seiter · Whitley v. Albers
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To make out a claim under the Eighth Amendment, the prisoner must satisfy both an objective and a subjective component.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The objective component requires the pain inflicted to be 'sufficiently serious.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. at 38 , 130 S.Ct. 1175 (quoting Hudson , 503 U.S. at 9-10 , 112 S.Ct. 995 ). The objective component of the Eighth Amendment”
2 later decisions 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.