Wesson v. Oglesby’s Empirical Analysis
910 F.2d 278 · 1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Hill v. Dekalb Regional Youth Detention Center (1994), Mendoza v. Lynaugh (1993)
13 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Graham v. Connor · Daniels v. Williams · Neitzke v. Williams
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plaintiff can ... prevail on a Constitutional excessive force claim only by proving each of these three elements: (1) a significant injury, which (2) resulted directly and only from the use of force that was clearly excessive to the need; and the excessiveness of which was (3) objectively unreasonable. If any one of these elements fails, so too does the plaintiffs claim. We overrule all previous decisions to the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“do not constitute such a 'serious medical need' that any minor delay caused by [prison officials] in delivering [inmate] to the care of medical personnel could be construed as 'deliberate indifference' "); Martin v. Gentile, 849 F.2d 863 , 871 (4th Cir.1988) (while sliver of glass in detainee's palm "was no doubt uncomfortable,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“magistrate abused his discretion by adopting the defendants' version of material facts about which the parties clearly differed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Barrientos
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.