Olson v. Stotts’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.3d 1475 · 1993
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 24 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Perkins v. Kansas Department of Corrections (1999), Sealock v. State (2000)
31 federal appellate · 24 district · 2 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 · Haines v. Kerner · Neitzke v. Williams · Wilson v. Seiter · Rhodes v. Chapman
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'delay in medical care can only constitute an Eighth Amendment violation if there has been deliberate indifference which results in substantial harm.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'In order to state a cognizable claim, a prisoner must allege acts or omissions sufficiently harmful to evidence deliberate indifference to serious medical needs.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.'”
3 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.