Miranda v. Munoz’s Empirical Analysis
770 F.2d 255 · 1985
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 30 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably West v. Atkins (1988), Maldonado-Denis v. Castillo-Rodriguez (1994)
38 federal appellate · 30 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · Westlake v. Lucas · Fernandez v. Chardon
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because there is no respondeat superior liability under § 1983, ... supervisory officials may be found liable only on the basis of their own acts or omissions. Supervisors need not have actual knowledge of the specific incident at issue, however, if they had the power and duty to alleviate the conditions which led to the violation____ We agree with the description of supervisory liability given by the Fourth Circuit in Slakan v. Porter, 737 F.2d 368, 373 (4th Cir.1984): “The outer limits of liability in any given case are determined ultimately by pinpointing the persons in the decisionmaking chain whose deliberate indifference permitted the constitutional abuses to continue unchecked.” !¡C S¡S í(t % >}í”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o establish programs to offer adequate medical care and hospital services intended to prevent diseases and the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of the patient. The services may be furnished, whenever the circumstances so require, outside Administration facilities under the necessary security measures. Detailed records of medical examinations and the health condition of the patient shall be kept.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although this court has hesitated to find deliberate indifference to a serious need where the dispute concerns not the absence of help, but the choice of a certain course of treatment, deliberate indifference may be found where the attention received is so clearly inadequate as to amount to a refusal to provide essential care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kosilek v. Maloney
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.