Dickson v. Colman’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.2d 1310 · 1978
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Ruiz v. Estelle (1982), Farrow v. West (2003)
16 federal appellate · 1 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 · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Procunier v. Navarette · J. W. Gamble v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'no true danger' or 'serious threat' to his health,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliberate indifference to serious medical needs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cruz v. Beto W J
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.