708 F. Supp. 182 - Smallwood v. Renfro’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2006
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. a serious medical injury and 2. defendants’ knowledge of the harm and conscious refusal to prevent it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owusu v. Grzyb
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.