Hall v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
957 F.2d 402 · 1992
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Adams v. Metiva (1994), Hare v. City of Corinth, Miss. (1994)
35 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was clearly established in 1986 that police officers could not be deliberately indifferent to a detainee who is in need of medical attention because of a mental illness or who is a substantial suicide risk.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lisle v. Welborn · Labrec v. Meeker“'only if the right allegedly violated is clearly established in a sufficiently particularized sense at the time of the actions at issue.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. ESTATE OF · Marshall v. Allen“from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
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.