681 F. Supp. 840 - Waldrop v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2015
4 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Anderson v. Creighton
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Several cases decided after Estelle * * * established the proposition that the standard of deliberate indifference for medical needs set forth in Estelle is equally applicable to the constitutional adequacy of psychological or psychiatric care provided at a prison. See, e.g., Hoptowit v. Ray, 682 F.2d 1237, 1253 (9th Cir.1982).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether it was clearly established in November of 1984, that providing an inmate with inadequate psychiatric care could lead to a violation of that inmate's Eighth Amendment rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waldrop v. Evans“so grossly incompetent, inadequate, or excessive as to shock the conscience” or”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edwards v. Gilbert
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.