David King v. Timothy Riley

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How courts have described this case

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• “[K]knowingly violating a prison policy does not amount to deliberate indifference. Not every violation of prison policy is a violation of the constitution.”
• “As liability here is personal, a complaint must contain specific allegations of each individual’s conduct[.]”

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Cites

44 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Farmer v. Brennan
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 28,443×
• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Pearson v. Callahan
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-21· cited 13,928×
• Anderson v. Creighton
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 12,768×
• Malley v. Briggs
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-05· cited 6,748×
• Hope v. Pelzer
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-27· cited 4,957×
• Helling v. McKinney
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-18· cited 4,262×
• Mullenix v. Luna
  Supreme Court· 2015-11-09· cited 3,438×
• Cruz v. Beto
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-20· cited 2,756×
• Brosseau v. Haugen
  Supreme Court· 2004-12-13· cited 2,748×
• Kisela v. Hughes
  Supreme Court· 2018-04-02· cited 1,731×
• Taylor v. Barkes
  Supreme Court· 2015-06-01· cited 937×
• Brumfield v. Hollins
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-12-02· cited 745×
• Trulock v. Freeh
  Fourth Circuit· 2001-12-28· cited 708×
• Lemire v. California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-08-07· cited 699×
• Patrick Booker v. South Carolina Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 2017-04-28· cited 668×
• City of Escondido v. Emmons
  Supreme Court· 2019-01-07· cited 609×
• Gregory L. Rich v. Sergeant Michael Bruce, and Sewall Smith, Warden James Sanders James Peguese Lieutenant Grant Teresa Wilson-Bogans, Corporal
  Fourth Circuit· 1997-11-13· cited 455×