Miller v. Schoenen’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.3d 1305 · 1996
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Winfield v. G.L. Bass (1997), Heidemann v. Rother (1996)
38 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y way of example, whether an inmate has alleged sufficient facts to allow a jury to conclude that the inmate faces a risk of assault from other inmates, prison officials know of the risk, and the reasonableness of their actions in light of a known risk are all reviewable in an appeal of a denial of qualified immunity at the summary-judgment stage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kahle v. Leonard · Krout v. Goemmer“to examine the information possessed by the government official accused of wrongdoing in order to determine whether, given the facts known to the official at the time, a reasonable government official would have known that his actions violated the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ernest Smith Jimmy Rudd v. Arkansas Department of Correction A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction Larry Norris, Acting Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction Willis H. Sargent, Warden of the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction A.J. Hall, Major, Chief of Security R.R. Wood, Lieutenant, Shift Supervisor J. Cleveland, Guard John Hood, Officer James Banks, Classification and Assignment Officer, Ron Smyers, Medical Services Administrator John Does, I-X, Dale Reed, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Linda C. Smith, Administratrix of the Estate of John E. Stewart v. Arkansas Department of Correction A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction, Larry Norris, Acting Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction Willis H. Sargent, Warden of the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction A.J. Hall, Major, Chief of Security R.R. Wood, Lieutenant, Shift Supervisor J. Cleveland, Guard John Hood, Officer, James Banks, Classification and Assignment Officer Ron Smyers, Medical Services Administrator John Does, I-X · Smith“their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 99-1698 · Winfield v. G.L. Bass
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.