Belcher v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.2d 32 · 1990
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Simmons v. City of Philadelphia (1991), Temkin
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Bell v. Wolfish · City of Canton v. Harris · Davis v. Scherer
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general right of pretrial detainees to receive basic medical care does not place upon jail officials the responsibility to screen every detainee for suicidal tendencies.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Fourteenth Amendment right of pretrial detainees, like the Eighth Amendment right of convicted prisoners, requires that government officials not be deliberately indifferent to any serious medical needs of the detainee.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no objective evidence that [he] even had a serious need for such attention ... [to] suicidal tendencies,”
2 later decisions 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.