Sosebee v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 179 · 1986
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Hathaway v. Coughlin (1994), Miltier v. Beorn (1990)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Ross v. Communications Satellite Corp. · Charbonnages De France v. Smith · Board of Trade v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission · Davis v. Zahradnick
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he apparent seriousness of [the inmate's] condition during his last hours of life raises issues of material fact. If the prison guards on duty at that time were aware of [his] physical status but refrained from obtaining medical assistance, an inference of deliberate indifference would arise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooper v. Dyke“drawn from the underlying facts ... must be viewed in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“carefully distinguished between a claim for 'deliberate indifference' and a claim for medical malpractice.”
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.