Gill v. Mooney’s Empirical Analysis
824 F.2d 192 · 1987
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 15 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Bryant v. Maffucci (1991), Rhodes v. Robinson (2004)
30 federal appellate · 15 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Daniels v. Williams · Hewitt v. Helms · Whitley v. Albers · Meachum v. Fano
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]rison officials are more than merely negligent if they deliberately defy the express instructions of a prisoner's doctors,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absent some personal involvement by [the supervisory official] in the allegedly unlawful conduct of his subordinates,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e deem Drake's complaint to include the facts contained in his memorandum of law filed in response to Delta’s 1996 motion to dismiss.”); Gill v. Mooney, 824 F.2d 192, 195 (2d Cir.1987) ("In his affidavit submitted in opposition to defendants' motion to dismiss, Gill asserts that Mooney's actions amounted to deliberate and willful indifference. Liberally construed under pro se pleading standards, Gill's allegations against Mooney involve more than ordinary lack of due care for the prisoner’s interests or safety, ... and therefore state a colorable claim under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.”
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.