Clark v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 4 · 1983
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 32 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably 6 Cal. 4th 965 - Potter v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1993), Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena (1989)
79 federal appellate · 32 district · 5 state decisions
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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Estelle v. Gamble · Parratt v. Taylor · Monroe v. Pape
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ur proper review of such a verdict is not to parse the award into its various components, but to determine whether the award as a whole is within the universe of possible awards which are supported by the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“well 'within the universe of possible awards that are supported by the evidence....,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] prison official ... cannot be liable under section 1983 for merely negligent failure to act. He can, however, be liable for a failure to act that reflects a reckless or callous indifference to the rights ... of the prisoners in his charge.”
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.