Anthony v. Dowdle’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 741 · 1988
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Hunt v. Dental Department (1989), Colwell v. Bannister (2014)
27 federal appellate ·
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. · Estelle v. Gamble · Gregg v. Georgia · Berg v. Kincheloe · Jones v. Johnson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]either 'an inadvertent failure to provide adequate medical care,' nor a physician's negligence 'in diagnosing or treating a medical condition ... state a valid claim of medical mistreatment under the Eighth Amendment.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marcus v. Carlton · Berry v. Rose“were neither obvious to the [officials] nor were any outward manifestations of the seriousness of his internal injuries noticed by the [officials].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jernigan v. Borg
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.