Jesus Benavides v. Santos Herrera’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2015
3 federal appellate · 3 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 Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · Cook & Nichol, Inc. v. Plimsoll Club · Walker v. Rowe · Rankin v. City of Wichita Falls
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to the safety of the guards, failed to take any appropriate action to prevent or adequately prepare against, or protect the guards from, the attempted escape and accompanying inmate violence. We held that dismissal was required under DeShaney 's general rule that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rios II“`manifest deliberate indifference to or conscious disregard' for the safety of officers ... on the part of the [defendants] City and [its] Chief of Police.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rios II“procedures in the prisoner intake facility, allowed a prisoner to grab another officer's gun and shoot [plaintiff, officer] Hogan with it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rios II
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.