Hudson v. McHugh’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.3d 859 · 1998
Citation profile
30 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably DeWalt v. Carter (2000), Johnson v. Doughty (2006)
30 federal appellate ·
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 · Haines v. Kerner · Farmer v. Brennan · Gutierrez v. Peters · Antonelli v. Sheahan
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reckless disregard for the known serious medical need, by inaction or woefully inadequate action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prison official cannot be found liable under the Eighth Amendment for denying an inmate humane conditions of confinement unless the official knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health or safety; the official must both 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The essence of liberal construction is to give a pro se plaintiff a break when, although he stumbles on a technicality, his pleading is otherwise understandable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.