Rasho v. Elyea’s Empirical Analysis
856 F.3d 469 · 2017
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Richardson v. McKnight · Jones v. City of Chicago
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires that a defendant actually know about yet disregard a substantial risk of harm to an inmate's health or safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“prison administrators and policymakers, not treaters”
1 later decision 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.