Duane v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
959 F.2d 673 · 1992
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Hathaway v. Coughlin (1994), Lunsford v. Bennett (1994)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Wilson v. Seiter · Whitley v. Albers · Hafer v. Melo
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actual knowledge of impending harm easily preventable, so that a conscious, culpable refusal to prevent the harm can be inferred from the defendant's failure to prevent it.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]o sustain his constitutional claim, [the inmate] must demonstrate something approaching a total unconcern for his welfare in the face of serious risks, McGill, 944 F.2d at 347, or a conscious, culpable refusal to prevent harm, Franzen, 780 F.2d at 653.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“sufficiently harmful to evidence deliberate indifference to serious medical needs.”
3 later decisions 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.