Russell v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the probability of heat-related illness based on the conditions of confinement in a certain cellblock and the open and obvious nature of the risk thereof amounted to an Eighth Amendment violation
• upholding the issuance of injunctive relief that relied on Dr. Vassallo’s testimony that the conditions of confinement were such that it was “very likely” that incarcerated persons in the relevant facility would die from heat stroke or some other heat-related condition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Gates v. Cook
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-06-28· cited 179×

Cites

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

• Farmer v. Brennan
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 28,443×
• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Bell v. Wolfish
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-14· cited 11,438×
• Wilson v. Seiter
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-17· cited 6,530×
• Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-12· cited 6,373×
• Porter v. Nussle
  Supreme Court· 2002-02-26· cited 4,960×
• Helling v. McKinney
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-18· cited 4,262×
• Leslie Wayne Yohey v. James A. Collins, Director Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-03-08· cited 3,536×
• Robinson v. California
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 2,369×
• Hutto v. Finney
  Supreme Court· 1979-01-15· cited 2,261×
• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 2,178×
• Johnson v. Manhattan Railway Co.
  Supreme Court· 1933-05-29· cited 465×
• Harper v. Showers
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-05-24· cited 457×
• DeSpain v. Uphoff
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-07-10· cited 451×
• McBride v. Deer
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-03-01· cited 449×
• John Martin Oatis, David Johnson, Sr., and R. T. Young v. Crown Zellerbach Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 1968-07-16· cited 433×
• Eric A. Brice v. Virginia Beach Correctional Center Frank Drew, Sheriff John Nieves, Deputy Sheriff, and City of Virginia Beach
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-06-28· cited 374×
• Nazareth Gates, and United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. John Collier, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-09-20· cited 349×
• Woods v. Edwards
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-05-11· cited 307×
• Frank Howard v. George Adkison and Henry Jackson
  Eighth Circuit· 1989-11-15· cited 237×