Turner v. Miller

How courts have described this case

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

• stating “the duty imposed upon a jailer vis a vis his prisoner is ‘to exercise reasonable care and diligence to protect the prisoner from danger, known to or which might reasonably be apprehended by him”
• “It is unreasonable to expect that the authorities can make a penitentiary a risk-free institution.”
• “[S]ection 4042 requires ordinary diligence to keep prisoners safe from harm.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Millbrook v. United States
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2014-03-25· cited 54×
• Flechsig v. United States
  E.D. Kentucky· 1991-10-30· cited 5×
• Berman v. United States
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2002-02-28· cited 2×
• Podlog v. United States
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2002-02-01· cited 1×