Brown v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 1991
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Finch v. Connor · Bowring v. Godwin
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(T)he essential test is one of medical necessity and not one simply of desirability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ruiz v. Estelle“perfect, the best obtainable, or even very good.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Thigpen
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.