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759 F.3d 10 · 2014

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown · Maldonado-Denis v. Castillo-Rodriguez · Ocasio-Hernández v. Fortuño-Burset · Gutierrez-Rodriguez v. Cartagena

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

  1. “(1) 'that the officials had knowledge of facts,' from which (2) 'the official[s] can draw the inference' (3) 'that a substantial risk of serious harm exists.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “the plaintiff must show '(1) that the officials had knowledge of facts, from which (2) the official[s] can draw the inference (3) that a substantial risk of serious harm exists.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “must be a strong one, as that requirement contemplates proof that the supervisor's conduct led inexorably to the constitutional violation.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.