Estate of Davis ex rel. Ostenfeld v. Delo’s Empirical Analysis
115 F.3d 1388 · 1997
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Littrell v. Franklin (2004), Andrews v. Neer (2001)
25 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Estelle v. Gamble · Whitley v. Albers · Hudson v. McMillian
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under this standard, we will overturn a finding of fact only if it is not supported by substantial evidence in the record, if the finding is based on an erroneous view of the law, or if we are left with the definite and firm conviction that an error has been made. A district court’s choice between two permissible views of evidence cannot be clearly erroneous.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“lost after it was forwarded to the Missouri Department of Corrections.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edward v. Bowersox · Lawrence“deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk of serious harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edward v. Bowersox · Lawrence
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.