J. W. Gamble v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
516 F.2d 937 · 1975
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021
16 federal appellate ·
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 Haines v. Kerner · Williams v. Vincent · Fitzke v. Shappell · Thomas v. Pate · Granville v. Hunt
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly an x-ray of (Gamble's) lower back might have been in order and other tests conducted that would have led to appropriate diagnosis and treatment for the daily pain and suffering he was experiencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Estelle v. Gamble“sensitive to the problems of the Pro se plaintiff in civil rights actions and not to be too quick to dismiss for failure to state a technical cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the fact that (Gamble) has spent months in solitary confinement without medical care and stands a good chance of remaining that way without intervention,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Estelle v. Gamble
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.