Nobles v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 235 · 1992
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2015
12 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Daniels v. Williams · Rochin v. People of California · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · Nishiyama v. Dickson County
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the conduct of the defendants ... amount[ed] to deliberate indifference which shocks the conscience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cloth[ed] ... with the authority of the state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“who had no official authority of any kind.”
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.