Farrow v. West’s Empirical Analysis
320 F.3d 1235 · 2003
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 267 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Maynard v. Board of Regents of the Division of Universities of the Florida Department of Education (2003), Mann v. Taser International, Inc. (2009)
50 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
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 · Farmer v. Brennan · 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 267 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one that has been diagnosed by a physician as mandating treatment or one that is so obvious that even a lay person would easily recognize the necessity for a doctor's attention.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Hughes · Hoffer v. Jones“(1) subjective knowledge of a risk of serious harm; (2) disregard of that risk; (3) by conduct that is more than [gross] negligence.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`must satisfy both an objective and a subjective inquiry. First, [he] must prove an objectively serious medical need. Second, [he] must prove that the [government] official acted with deliberate indifference to that need.'”
8 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.