Smith v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 90 · 1990
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Dulany v. Carnahan (1997), Ledford v. Sullivan (1997)
29 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Estelle v. Gamble · Carlson v. Green · Chicago Park District v. Alexander · Hamm v. County
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“course of treatment, or lack thereof, so deviated from professional standards that it amounted to deliberate indifference.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so inappropriate as to evidence intentional maltreatment,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] doctor's decision to take an easier and less efficacious course of treatment”
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.