Broughton v. Cutter Laboratories’s Empirical Analysis
622 F.2d 458 · 1980
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Karim-Panahi v. Los Angeles Police Department (1988), Franklin v. Murphy (1984)
72 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 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 · Potter v. McCall · Crawford v. Bell
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'absolutely clear that the deficiencies of the complaint could not be cured by amendment.'”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the indifference to his medical needs must be substantial. Mere `indifference,' `negligence,' or `medical malpractice' will not support this cause of action.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Noble v. McGee · Saleem v. Atiyeh“deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners”
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.