Fields v. Gander’s Empirical Analysis
734 F.2d 1313 · 1984
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Chance v. Armstrong (1998), Gutierrez v. Peters (1997)
34 federal appellate · 9 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 · Buller v. Buechler · Wellman v. Faulkner · Byrd v. Wilson
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Cjlaims that Gander knew of the pain he was suffering..., observed swelling in Fields' face, and still refused to provide dental care for him for up to three weeks . . . could support a finding of an eighth amendment deprivation in violation of section 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners.”
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.