Dudley v. Stubbs’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 11 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2004 · most notably Wilson v. Seiter (1991), Murray v. Giarratano (1989)
72 federal appellate · 11 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Whitley v. Albers · Holloway v. Lockhart · Stubbs v. Dudley
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.' " Id., at 320-321, 106 S.Ct. at 1085 (quoting Johnson, 481 F.2d, at 1033). See also Dudley v. Stubbs, 489 U.S. 1034 , 1037-1038, 109 S.Ct. 1095, 1097-1098, 103 L.Ed.2d 230 (1989) (O'CONNOR, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari). In contrast, "the State's responsibility to attend to the medical needs of prisoners does not ordinarily clash with other equally important governmental responsibilities,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Wilson v. Seiter“adequately capture the importance of ... competing obligations, or convey the appropriate hesitancy to critique in hindsight decisions necessarily made in haste, under pressure, and frequently without the luxury of a second chance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'maliciously and sadistically for the very purpose of causing harm.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Wilson v. Seiter
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.