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McGowan v. Hulick’s Empirical Analysis

612 F.3d 636 · 2010

Citation profile

80
cited by 80 later decisions
1
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Farmer v. Brennan · Erickson v. Pardus

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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[Tihe length of delay that is tolerable depends on the seriousness of the condition and the ease of providing treatment.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “non-life-threatening but painful conditions may constitute deliberate indifference if the delay exacerbated the injury or unnecessarily prolonged an inmate's pain.”
    1 later decision 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.