Startz v. Cullen’s Empirical Analysis
468 F.2d 560 · 1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cataldo v. United States · Wayne Hudson v. Kenneth L. Hardy · Church v. Hegstrom · Robert Andre v. Stanley R. Resor, Secretary of the Army · United States ex rel. Hyde v. McGinnis
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is confined to determining whether the medical treatment of the prisoner is so shocking as to constitute a denial of due process prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment or a cruel. and unusual punishment forbidden by the Eighth Amendment, selectively incorporated into the Fourteenth.” Startz v. Cullen, 468 F.2d 560, 561 (2 Cir. 1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sloan v. Zelker
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.