Harris v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.2d 414 · 1988
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably Medina v. City & County Denver (1992), Berry v. City of Muskogee (1990)
25 federal appellate · 5 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Daniels v. Williams
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“wanton or obdurate disregard for or deliberate indifference to”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“wanton or obdurate disregard of or deliberate indifference to the prisoner's [safety]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]his case affords us no occasion to consider whether something less than intentional conduct, such as recklessness or 'gross negligence,' is enough to trigger the protections of the Due Process Clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 90-1166
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.