Peralta v. Dillard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions

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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Prison officials violate the Eighth Amendment if they are deliberately indifferent to a prisoner’s serious medical needs. A medical need is serious if failure to treat it will result in significant injury or the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain. A prison official is deliberately indifferent to that need if he knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. HARRIS v. STATE · 585 F. App'x 606 - John Silvis v. R. Davis

2. “[T]he state is protected from monetary damages by the Eleventh Amendment. We may not circumvent this protection by imputing the state's wrongdoing to an employee who himself has committed no wrong. The dissenters attempt an end run around the Eleventh Amendment by subjecting the state to precisely the kind of economic pressure against which the amendment protects it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Peters v. Cox

3. “Jones v. Johnson , 781 F.2d 769 , 771 (9th Cir. 1986) (citing Bell v. Wolfish , 441 U.S. 520 , 535 n.16, 99 S.Ct. 1861 , 60 L.Ed.2d 447 (1979) ), overruled on other grounds by Peralta v. Dillard , 744 F.3d 1076 (9th Cir. 2014) (en banc); see also Gary H. v. Hegstrom , 831 F.2d 1430 , 1432 (9th Cir. 1987) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Shorter v. Baca