Byrd v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
701 F.2d 592 · 1983
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably West v. Atkins (1988), Boretti v. Wiscomb (1991)
50 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Gregg v. Georgia · Trop v. Dulles
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliberate indifference to serious medical needs”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]edical malpractice does not become a constitutional violation merely because the victim is a prisoner.”
3 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.