Noble v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.3d 1138 · 2011
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Pearson v. Callahan · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it was not clearly established in 2002 — nor is it established yet — precisely how, according to the Constitution, or when a prison facility housing problem inmates must return to normal operations, including outside exercise, during and after a state of emergency called in response to a major riot, here one in which inmates attempted to murder staff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]fficials must balance [the duty to keep inmates safe] against other obligations that our laws impose .... '[P]rison officials have a right and duty to take the necessary steps to reestablish order in a prison when such order is lost.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Olivier v. Baca
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.