Logan v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.3d 647 · 1997
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Harrison Jolly v. John Knudsen, Correctional Medical Systems, Ara Services, Inc., and Jerry Jorgensen (2000), Langford v. Norris (2010)
19 federal appellate · 1 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the prison doctors may not have proceeded ... as quickly as hindsight perhaps allows us to think they should have, their actions were not deliberately indifferent. The doctors made efforts to cure the problem in a reasonable and sensible manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Leonard
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.