Thompson v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
289 F.3d 1218 · 2002
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · Ramos v. Lamm · United States v. Sandoval
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“medical need is serious if it has been diagnosed by a doctor, or if it would be obvious to a layperson that doctor intervention was needed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A substantial deprivation of food may be sufficiently serious to state a conditions of confinement claim under the Eighth Amendment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Trujillo v. Williams
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.