Paine v. Cason’s Empirical Analysis
678 F.3d 500 · 2012
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1395D (§ 1812 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Johnson v. Jones
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Several decisions in this and other circuits hold that people propelled into danger by public employees have a good claim under the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is clearly established that state actors who, without justification, increase a person's risk of harm violate the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties rather than a source of rights to protection or treatment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.