Rust v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably AM v. State (1997), Wetherhorn v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute (2007)
37 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Gregg v. Georgia · Gault · Kent v. United States · Robinson v. State of California
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the exercise of that discretion within constitutional bounds is not subject to the control or review of the courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is committed to the administrative discretion of the Division of Corrections,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[An inmate] is entitled to psychological or psychiatric treatment if a physician or other health care provider, exercising ordinary skill and care at the time of observation, concludes with reasonable medical certainty (1) that the prisoner’s symptoms evidence a serious disease or injury; (2) that such disease or injury is curable or may be substantially alleviated; and (3) that the potential for harm to the prisoner by reason of delay or the denial of care would be substantial. Bowring, 551 F.2d at 47 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.