390 F. Supp. 905 - Derrickson v. Keve’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2000
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Florida Citrus Exposition, Inc. v. Hungerford Construction Co. · Gittlemacker v. Prasse · Dewell v. Lawson · Robert Andre v. Stanley R. Resor, Secretary of the Army · Corby v. Conboy
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In these circumstances, it would seem a decision by prison officials never to allow Plaintiff to elect surgery which the prison’s own physician recommended would indeed by [sic] arbitrary, capricious and cruel. On the other hand, the law is clear that in failing to provide surgery to date, the authorities have not exceeded their discretion. 13”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. West v. Keve
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.