Phillips v. Jasper County Jail’s Empirical Analysis
437 F.3d 791 · 2006
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Chambers v. Pennycook (2011), Butler v. Fletcher (2006)
20 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Dulany v. Carnahan · Coleman v. Rahija · Gil v. Reed · Harrison Jolly v. John Knudsen, Correctional Medical Systems, Ara Services, Inc., and Jerry Jorgensen
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relevant criteria for determining whether counsel should be appointed include the factual complexity of the issues, the ability of the indigent person to investigate the facts, the existence of conflicting testimony, the ability of the indigent person to present the claims, and the complexity of the legal arguments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so obvious that even a layperson would easily recognize the necessity for a doctor's attention.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he knowing failure to administer prescribed medicine can itself constitute deliberate indifference.”
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.