Howard v. Dickerson’s Empirical Analysis
34 F.3d 978 · 1994
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Hare v. City of Corinth, Miss. (1994), Estate of Booker v. Gomez (2014)
32 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Payton v. New York · Welsh v. Wisconsin · Vermont v. Cox · Hanil Bank v. Michelman
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The constitutional protection against deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical needs, as announced in Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97 (1976)(Eighth Amendment shields prisoners after adjudication), applies to pretrial detainees through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The constitutional protection against deliberate indifference ... applies to pretrial detainees through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dean v. Hamblin“received consent to enter home, no Fourth amendment violation would exist because [the officer] would not have intruded on the [arrestee's] privacy rights”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schaefers v. Wright
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.