Ruefly v. Landon’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 792 · 1987
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably McGill v. Duckworth (1991), Street v. Corrections Corp. of America (1996)
23 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Daniels v. Williams · Whitley v. Albers · Rhodes v. Chapman · Pressly v. Hutto
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he gist of the amended complaint [in that case] [was] that the defendants knew Scottie Lowe to be a dangerous and violent inmate, and that, despite this knowledge, the defendants failed to protect Ruefly and other inmates against Lowe's violent propensities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Price v. Sasser“The relevant question is whether Ruefly has alleged that the defendants wantonly and obdurately failed to take precautions for his safety in deliberate indifference to a specific known risk of harm posed by [the other inmate].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Price v. Sasser“There is no allegation in the amended complaint that Lowe had ever assaulted or threatened Ruefly prior to the incident on which this suit is based.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Price v. Sasser
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.