Martinez v. Garden’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 1302 · 2005
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Yu Kikumura v. Osagie (2006), Kyler v. Everson (2006)
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 · Farmer v. Brennan · Ramos v. Lamm · Sealock v. State · Riddle v. Mondragon
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In addition to construing a pro se complaint liberally, this court `must accept the allegations of the complaint as true and construe those allegations, and any reasonable inferences that might be drawn from them, in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A medical need is [objectively] serious if it is 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Colbert“knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health or safety”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Colbert
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.