Lw v. Grubbs’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Kennedy Jd v. City of Ridgefield Wa (2006), Huffman
6 district · 4 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 City of Canton v. Harris · Collins v. City of Harker Heights · Yagow v. United States · Dennis v. Dennis · Greening v. Moran
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to establish Section 1983 liability in an action against a state official for an injury ... the plaintiff must show that the state official participated in creating a dangerous condition, and acted with deliberate indifference to the known or obvious danger in subjecting the plaintiff to it. ... Deliberate indifference to a known, or so obvious as to imply knowledge of, danger, by a supervisor who participated in creating the danger, is enough. Less is not enough.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e have not added a requirement that the conscience of the federal judiciary be shocked by deliberate indifference, because the use of such subjective epithets as `gross' `reckless' and `shocking' sheds more heat than light on the thought process courts must undertake in cases of this kind.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he state actor must `recognize[] [an] unreasonable risk and actually intend[] to expose the plaintiff to such risks without regard to the consequences to the plaintiff.'”
2 later decisions 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.