Tolbert v. Eyman’s Empirical Analysis
434 F.2d 625 · 1970
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Estelle v. Gamble (1976), Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r (2000)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 States v. Sealy, Inc. · Coleman v. Johnston · Stiltner v. Rhay · McCollum v. Mayfield
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gravamen of his claim is not that he was erroneously diagnosed by the prison doctor, but that the warden refused to allow him authorized medicine that he needed to prevent serious harm to his health.”
2 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.