Reed v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.3d 849 · 1999
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Martha Sanville v. Gary McCaughtry (2001), David Sherrod v. Darlene Lingle, R.n. (2000)
25 federal appellate · 4 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 Farmer v. Brennan · Wilson v. Seiter · Helling v. McKinney · Jones v. City of Chicago · City of Santa Ana v. Hernandez
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A condition is objectively serious if failure to treat it could result in further significant injury or unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“court must assess the amount and duration of the deprivation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We hold instead that 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 majoritye.g. Williams v. Shah
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.