Sudderth v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2016
8 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 35 Ill. App. 3d 703 - Dezort v. Village of Hinsdale · Vassill's Adm'r v. Scarsella · Lamb v. Clark, Jailer · Modern Bakery, Inc. v. Brashear · Lair v. Johnson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When prison authorities know or should know that a prisoner has suicidal tendencies or that a prisoner might physically harm himself, a duty arises to provide reasonable care to assure that such harm does not occur.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Joseph v. State
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.