570 F. Supp. 1361 - Ellison v. Scheipe’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2018
1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Inmates of Allegheny County Jail v. Pierce P W R · Hampton v. Holmesburg Prison Officials
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]rison officials cannot be required to second guess the medical judgment of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spencer v. Garden
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.