Lovett v. Boddy’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2011
2 district · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Schmerber v. State of California · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs evidence regarding Defendant Boddy’s role in the catheterization is ... weak. Doctor Nell has sworn that he ordered the insertion of the catheter into Plaintiff, that he did so because of medical necessity, and that his order was not influenced by ‘any request or order of any law officer.’ (Dep. of Nell, conducted by counsel for Boddy, at 4).... Plaintiffs proof, in short, presents no genuine issue of material fact suggesting that Defendant Boddy caused him to be subjected to the catheter’s insertion. Defendant Boddy is therefore entitled as a matter of law to judgment with respect to liability arising from Plaintiffs catheterization.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he forcible extraction of urine through a catheter arguably presents Fourth Amendment considerations of somewhat greater intensity.” 810 F.Supp. at 848 . It noted that unlike a blood draw, one cannot say that catheterization involves”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cathet-erization cannot be said to involve 'virtually no risk, trauma, or pain'”
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.