Meloy v. Bachmeier’s Empirical Analysis
302 F.3d 845 · 2002
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Davis v. Hall (2004), Littrell v. Franklin (2004)
21 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Hope v. Pelzer
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he law does not clearly require an administrator with less medical training to second-guess or disregard a treating physician's treatment decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Drake v. Koss · Drake v. Koss“Deliberate indifference may be manifested by prison doctors in responding to the prisoner's needs or by prison officials in intentionally denying or delaying access to medical care or intentionally interfering with prescribed treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the law was clearly established that a prison official's deliberate indifference to an inmate's serious medical needs violates the Eighth Amendment.”
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.