Lois Gregoire v. Joseph Class’s Empirical Analysis
236 F.3d 413 · 2000
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Gerald Tlamka As Special Administrator for the Estate of Frank Tlamka Deceased v. Otha Lee Serrell (2001), Wilson v. Lawrence County (2001)
33 federal appellate · 15 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment extends to protect prisoners from deliberate indifference to serious medical needs,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n official is deliberately indifferent (reckless) if he disregards a known risk to a prisoner’s health. To establish a constitutional violation, it is not enough that a reasonable official should have known of the risk, a plaintiff must establish that the official in question did in fact know of the risk. However, this knowledge is subject to proof by all the usual ways, including inferences based on the obviousness of the risk. Lastly, even if an official knows of a risk, he is not liable for a subsequent injury if he responded reasonably to the known risk.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In evaluating an official’s response to a known suicide risk, we should be cognizant of how serious the official knows the risk to be. Our cases indicate that a single phone call to an official who has no other reason to think an inmate is a suicide risk, most likely does not create a strong likelihood that infliction of self-harm will result.”
2 later decisions 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.