Martin v. White’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 469 · 1984
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably Farmer v. Brennan (1994), Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena (1989)
82 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Gregg v. Georgia · Hudson v. Palmer · Hewitt v. Helms
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]rison officials may be liable where they are 'deliberately indifferent to [a prisoner's] constitutional rights, either because they actually intended to deprive him of some right, or because they acted with reckless disregard of his right to be free from violent attacks by fellow inmates.'”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Porm v. White · Vosburg v. Solem“A directed verdict is in order only where the evidence points all one way and is susceptible of no reasonable inferences sustaining the position of the nonmoving party. * * * In making this determination, the evidence, together with all reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom, must be viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porm v. White“the inability or unwillingness of some prison administrators to take the necessary steps to protect their prisoners from sexual and physical assaults by other inmates” as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doe v. Ayers
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.