Aswegan v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 461 · 1995
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Blackmore v. Kalamazoo County (2004), Gee v. Pacheco (2010)
19 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Wilson v. Seiter · Rhodes v. Chapman · Hudson v. McMillian · Beyerbach v. Sears
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A medical need is serious if it is `obvious to the layperson or supported by medical evidence, like a physician's diagnosis.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conditions posing a substantial risk of serious future harm”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f trained health care officials could not find a serious medical need in these circumstances, then we decline to hold that a reasonable lay person should have done so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roberts v. Kopel
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.