Miller v. Leathers’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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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.

1. “While the particular setting of Whitley involved a prison riot, the standard announced in that case is not limited to the quelling of institutional disturbances. The Whitley standard applies to any “claim of excessive force to subdue [a] convicted prisoner,” Graham, 109 S.Ct. at 1871, or to “prophylactic or preventive measures intended to reduce the incidence of ... any other breaches of prison discipline.” Whitley, 475 U.S. at 322 , 106 S.Ct. at 1085 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morrison v. Martin

2. “Every disputed fact between altercants is not a material fact for purposes of summary judgment.... [The appellant/inmate] could have survived summary judgment here 'only if the evidence viewed in the light most favorable to him [went] beyond a mere dispute over the reasonableness of the force used and ... support[ed] a reliable inference of the wantonness in the infliction of pain”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Troy R. Gibbons v. J. Higgins, Conduct Adjustment Board Chairman, Officer J. Melly, Scott Roberts, Conduct Adjustment Board Members, 2

3. “'evidence viewed in the light most favorable to him [goes] beyond a mere dispute over the reasonableness of the force used and ... support[s] a reliable inference of the wantonness in the infliction of pain.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crowell v. Ce Johnson V Ma