White v. Farrier’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 322 · 1988
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Farmer v. Haas (1993), Madewell v. Roberts (1990)
24 federal appellate · 10 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · Andrijevic v. Kelleran
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] dispute about a material fact is genuine if a reasonable jury could return a verdict in favor of either party.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]hysicians are entitled to exercise their medical judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sherrer v. Stephens
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.