Medina v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Salazar v. City of Oklahoma City (1999), Logan County Conservation District v. Pleasant Oaks Homeowners Ass'n (2016)
21 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
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Wolff v. McDonnell · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Whitley v. Albers · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 155. The state or a political subdivision shall not be liable if a loss or claim results from: ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ 23. Provision, equipping, operation or maintenance of any prison, jail or correctional facility, or injuries resulting from the parole or escape of a prisoner or by a prisoner to any other prisoner; ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“protects the state from liability for loss resulting from the actual stock of (provision) or the supplying of (equipping) all that is necessary to the functioning of a penal institution, or the process or manner of conducting (operation) the functions of a penal institution, or the process or series of acts necessary to sustaining (maintenance) the proper conditions of a penal institution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“For purposes of the [statute], operational functions include all activity involved in the performance of policy, while discretionary functions are limited to policy-making or planning level actions or decisions.... Under the planning-operational approach, the discretionary function exemption would include policy-making or planning level activities, while the operational function exemption at issue would include activities of a penal institution, such as the dispensing of prescription medications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MASAD v. Weber
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.