Leite v. Bergeron’s Empirical Analysis
911 F.3d 47 · 2018
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Wilson v. Seiter · Whitley v. Albers · Gaudreault v. Municipality of Salem · Xiaoyan Tang v. Citizens Bank, N.A.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A medical need is sufficiently serious if it 'has been diagnosed by a physician as mandating treatment,' or is 'so obvious that even a lay person would easily recognize the necessity for a doctor's attention.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lech v. Von Goeler“[u]nder Farmer . . . it is Page 337 irrelevant 'whether the prisoner faces an excessive risk of attack for reasons personal to him or because all prisoners in his situation face such a risk'”
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.