Givens v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 1229 · 1990
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Wilson v. Seiter (1991), Beyerbach v. Sears (1995)
37 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Gregg v. Georgia
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]ithout any allegation that the defendants ignored an acute or escalating situation involving a serious medical condition, we cannot conclude that a one-month delay in providing treatment for leg pain clearly amounted to deliberate indifference to a serious medical need.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Bowers
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.