West v. Keve’s Empirical Analysis
571 F.2d 158 · 1978
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 27 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Bryant v. Maffucci (1991), Ramos v. Lamm (1980)
38 federal appellate · 27 district · 4 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Estelle v. Gamble · Edelman v. Jordan · Robinson v. State of California · Murray v. Wilson Distilling Co.
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Deliberate indifference on the part of prison officials; and (2) The prisoner’s medical needs must be serious.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mandel v. Doe · Hafner v. Delano“deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defense of sovereignty is waived and cannot and will not be asserted as to any risk or loss covered by the state insurance coverage program, whether same be covered by commercially procured insurance or by self-insurance ...”
2 later decisions 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.