McGhee v. Foltz’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 876 · 1988
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 71 Ohio App. 3d 46 - Saunders v. McFaul (1990), Walker v. Norris (1990)
37 federal appellate · 2 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Estelle v. Gamble · Hudson v. Palmer · Whitley v. Albers · Ingraham v. Wright
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether prison officials have violated the Eighth Amendment rights of an inmate by failing to protect him from assault by another inmate this court has applied a standard of '... deliberate indifference on the part of the officials to [the plaintiff's] risk of injury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butts v. Dutton“While 'much less than proof of a reign of violence and terror in the particular institution' is required to demonstrate pervasive risk of harm, a single incident or several isolated incidents are not sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rilett v. Naschke
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.