Vance v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.3d 987 · 1996
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Gutierrez v. Peters (1997), Hildebrandt v. Illinois Department of Natural Resources (2003)
60 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Kentucky v. Graham
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“caused or participated in a constitutional deprivation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n official satisfies the personal responsibility requirement of section 1983 ... if the conduct causing the constitutional deprivation occurs at [his] direction or with [his] knowledge and consent. That is, he must know about the conduct and facilitate it, approve it, condone it, or turn a blind eye. In short, some causal connection or affirmative link between the action complained about and the official sued is necessary for § 1983 recovery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the appropriate inquiry when an inmate alleges that prison officials failed to attend to serious medical needs is whether the officials exhibited 'deliberate indifference.' " Deliberate indifference is present only if the defendant "knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health and safety.”
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.