Carl C. Coppinger v. Gene Townsend, M.D., and Wayne K. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
398 F.2d 392 · 1968
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Westlake v. Lucas (1976), Bethea v. Crouse (1969)
41 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · United States v. Sealy, Inc. · Conway v. Wilson · United States ex rel. Knight v. Ragen · Graham v. Willingham
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This then is but a situation where there is a difference of opinion between a lay patient and the prison doctor as to the proper course of treatment, which according to Coppinger, does not give rise to a constitutional right or sustain a civil rights claim.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The internal affairs of prisons, including the discipline, treatment, and care of prisoners are ordinarily the responsibility of the prison administrators and not subject to judicial review.””
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.