Tagstrom v. Enockson’s Empirical Analysis
857 F.2d 502 · 1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2023
3 federal appellate · 1 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 Whitley v. Albers · Maddox v. City of Los Angeles · Wright v. South Arkansas Regional Health Center, Inc. · Cooper v. Dyke · Cummings v. Roberts
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The plaintiff] asks us to find that [the defendant police officer] had an affirmative duty to render medical assistance himself, such as giving ... CPR. However, [the plaintiff] points to no cases that clearly establish that [the officer] had such a duty. [Citing Maddox]. [The officer] properly performed his duty by immediately calling an ambulance. His decision not to give medical assistance ... did not violate [the plaintiffs] right to prompt medical assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Enockson was in no way deliberately indifferent to Tagstrom’s medical needs. It is undisputed that Enockson called for an ambulance for Tagstrom immediately upon seeing the accident and that the ambulance arrived within six minutes or less.”
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.