Sires v. Berman’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 9 · 1987
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 20 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Hathaway v. Coughlin (1994), Steven M. Desrosiers v. John J. Moran (1991)
16 federal appellate · 20 district · 5 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 · Bell v. Wolfish · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Stepanischen v. Merchants Despatch Transportation Corp. · Layne v. Vinzant
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the dispute concerns not the absence of help, but the choice of a certain course of treatment, or evidences mere disagreement with considered medical judgment, we will not second guess the doctors.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an instance of callous disregard in the face of a pressing medical emergency”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a case of a petty squabble with an overworked, or even rude, nurse ... [is] certainly not an indifference that can offend 'evolving standards of decency'”
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.