Mata v. Saiz’s Empirical Analysis
427 F.3d 745 · 2005
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 21 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Martinez v. Beggs (2009), Estate of Booker v. Gomez (2014)
16 federal appellate · 21 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Wilson v. Seiter
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health or safety.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] medical need is sufficiently serious if it is one ... that is so obvious that even a lay person would easily recognize the necessity for a doctor's attention.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'both an objective and a subjective component.'”
4 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.