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966 F.2d 375 · 1992

Citation profile

74
cited by 74 later decisions
1
states following
July 2020
most recently cited

42 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Choate v. Al Lockhart (1993), Ware v. Jackson County (1998)

42 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

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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 · Bell v. Wolfish · Gregg v. Georgia · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hudson v. McMillian

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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““must show something more than mere inadvertence or negligence. He must show the defendants were deliberately indifferent to his constitutional rights, either because they actually deprived him of some right, or because they acted with reckless disregard of his right to be free from violent attacks by fellow inmates.””
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “An injunction must be tailored to remedy the specific harm shown_ Furthermore, title 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , the title under which this action was brought, requires inter alia that, in order for liability to ensue, a person must be subjected to a deprivation of ... rights ... secured by the constitution and laws ...”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “'determining whether the established facts fall within the relevant legal definition.'”
    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.