Philip Wharton v. Carl Danberg

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming district court’s dismissal of substantive due process claims that were parallel to Eighth Amendment claims under the more-specific-provision rule
• “[S]peculation and conjecture may not defeat a motion for summary judgment[.]” (alterations in original) (quoting Acumed LLC v. Advanced Surgical Servs., Inc., 561 F.3d 199, 228 (3d Cir. 2009))
• “Suits against high-level government officials must satisfy the general requirements for supervisory liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Alanda Forrest v. Kevin Parry
  Third Circuit· 2019-07-10· cited 525×
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  Third Circuit· 2020-09-01· cited 218×
• Qing Qin v. Vertex Inc
  Third Circuit· 2024-05-02· cited 76×
• Davis v. State
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2017-10-06· cited 55×
• Jason Ali v. Woodbridge Township School Dis
  Third Circuit· 2020-04-22· cited 55×
• Hall-Wadley v. Maint. Dep't
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2019-06-27· cited 40×
• Donald Delade v. John Cargan
  Third Circuit· 2020-08-25· cited 25×
• NRA Group LLC v. Nicole Durenleau
  Third Circuit· 2025-08-26
• Andrew Perrong v. Matthew Bradford
  Third Circuit· 2025-10-06
• NRA Group LLC v. Nicole Durenleau
  Third Circuit· 2025-10-07

Cites

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

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Bell v. Wolfish
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-14· cited 11,438×
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-20· cited 4,653×
• United States v. Lanier
  Supreme Court· 1997-03-31· cited 2,070×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1999-06-29· cited 1,308×
• Taylor v. Barkes
  Supreme Court· 2015-06-01· cited 937×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 2001-06-11· cited 792×
• Betts v. New Castle Youth Development Center
  Third Circuit· 2010-09-13· cited 717×
• Barkes Ex Rel. Barkes v. First Correctional Medical, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 2014-09-05· cited 626×
• In Re Hydrogen Peroxide Antitrust Litigation
  Third Circuit· 2009-01-16· cited 549×
• Giles v. Kearney
  Third Circuit· 2009-07-15· cited 522×
• Moore v. Tartler
  Third Circuit· 1993-03-01· cited 446×
• Sample v. Diecks
  Third Circuit· 1989-09-12· cited 364×
• Frank Haygood v. Evelle J. Younger, and Harold Cranke and Benjamin Seymour
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-08-27· cited 363×
• ACUMED LLC v. Advanced Surgical Services, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 2009-03-20· cited 337×
• Hubbard v. Taylor
  Third Circuit· 2005-02-23· cited 328×
• Boring v. Kozakiewicz
  Third Circuit· 1987-11-16· cited 241×
• Lexington Insurance Company v. Western Pennsylvania Hospital
  Third Circuit· 2005-09-09· cited 129×
• Montanez v. Thompson
  Third Circuit· 2010-04-22· cited 102×
• Kent Alexander v. William Perrill and Luis Rivera
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-10-10· cited 91×