Bishop v. Stoneman’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 1224 · 1974
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Doe ex rel. Doe v. New York City Department of Social Services (1981), Inmates of Allegheny County Jail v. Pierce P W R (1979)
15 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Robert Andre v. Stanley R. Resor, Secretary of the Army · Corby v. Conboy
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“series of incidents closely related in time, within several months (for example), may disclose a pattern of conduct amounting to deliberate indifference”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“medical facilities were so wholly inadequate for the prison population's needs that suffering would be inevitable”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.