Chance v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
143 F.3d 698 · 1998
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 22 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 485 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Cruz v. Coach Stores, Inc. (2000), John Andrew Cuoco v. Kenneth Moritsugu (2000)
45 federal appellate · 22 district · 9 state decisions
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 Conley v. Gibson · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Gregg v. Georgia · Neitzke v. Williams
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 485 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health or safety; the official must be aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exists, and he must also draw the inference.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not whether a plaintiff is likely to prevail ultimately, but whether the claimant is entitled to offer evidence to support the claims.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he existence of an injury that a reasonable doctor or patient would find important and worthy of comment or treatment; the presence of a medical condition that significantly affects an individual's daily activities; or the existence of chronic and substantial pain.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.