Davidson v. Coughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2015
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Wilson v. Seiter
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim alleging that prison conditions are in violation of the Eighth Amendment must satisfy both an objective and subjective requirement: the conditions complained of must be “sufficiently serious” from an objective standpoint, and the plaintiff must demonstrate that prison officials subjectively acted with “deliberate indifference.” Wilson v. Seiter, 501 U.S. 294 , 298 & 297, 111 S.Ct. 2321 , 115 L.Ed.2d 271 (1991). The required inquiry with regard to deliberate indifference is whether “the official knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate [health or] safety; the official must both be aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn [that a substantial risk of serious harm exists,] and [he] must also draw th[e] inference.” Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 837 , 114 S.Ct. 1970 , 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leach v. Dufrain“the charged official must act with a sufficiently culpable state of mind. The required state of mind, equivalent to criminal recklessness, is that the official knows of an[d] disregards an excessive risk to inmate health or safety; the official must both be aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exists, and he must also draw the inference. Thus, to satisfy the subjective prong of the deliberate indifference standard, [a plaintiff] must demonstrate that the [Defendants] knew of.and disregarded an excessive risk to [a plaintiffs] health and safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.