Ross v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 372 F. Supp. 2d 377 - Atkins v. County of Orange (2005), Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians v. NGV Gaming, Ltd. (2008)
1 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 · Wilson v. Seiter · Meachum v. Fano · Castor v. United States · Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] complaint that a physician has been negligent in diagnosing or treating a medical condition does not state a valid claim of medical mistreatment under the Eighth Amendment. Medical malpractice does not become a constitutional violation merely because the victim is a prisoner.”). 1 . A fact is”
4 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.