Benson v. Cady’s Empirical Analysis
761 F.2d 335 · 1985
Citation profile
107 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Duckworth v. Franzen (1985), Ellsworth v. City of Racine (1985)
107 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Bounds v. Smith
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) that the defendant knew or should have known of the substantial risk that violence would occur, or it would have been apparent to a reasonable person in his position....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilks v. Young · Murdock v. Fields“acts or omissions sufficiently harmful to evidence deliberate indifference to serious medical needs.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Benson’s amended complaint, which was drafted by an attorney, is not entitled to the protection afforded pro se complaints under Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 519 , 92 S.Ct. 594 , 30 L.Ed.2d 652 (1972). Rather, the sufficiency of the amended complaint is to be appraised under the standard set forth in Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41, 42, 45-46 , 78 S.Ct. 99, 100, 101-102 , 2 L.Ed.2d 80 (1957): [A] complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
5 later decisions 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.