Lakin v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.3d 66 · 2014
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Cortes-Quinones v. Jimenez-Nettleship · Thomas Beaton, Sr. v. Franklin Tennis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such as the population of the prison, the level of violence that might be expected at an institution of similar size and character, any changes in prison management or in the potential violence of inmates housed there, or”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“freestanding, numerical threshold (ex ante or ex post) for the level of violence among inmates that is necessary for its risk to be considered 'substantial' under Farmer”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any relevant changes in the [p]rison's practices or policies that might account for the increase in overall inmate violence.”
1 later decision 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.