Gobert v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
463 F.3d 339 · 2006
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 208 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Davis v. McKinney (2008), Easter v. Powell (2006)
22 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan
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 208 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he decision whether to provide additional treatment is a classic example of a matter for medical judgment.”) (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 107 , 97 S.Ct. 285 , 50 L.Ed.2d 251 (1976)). 16 . See Bejaran v. Cruz, 79 Fed.Appx. 73, 74 (5th Cir.2003) (”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court’s decision to deny qualified immunity on a motion for summary judgment is “not appealable if [it is] based on a claim regarding the sufficiency of the evidence.... Therefore, if the district court concludes that the summary judgment record raises a genuine issue of material fact with respect to whether ... qualified immunity is applicable, then that decision is not immediately appealable....’’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one for which treatment has been recommended or for which the need is so apparent that even laymen would recognize that care is required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carlucci v. Chapa
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.