Varnado v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
920 F.2d 320 · 1991
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n (1996), Gobert v. Caldwell (2006)
24 federal appellate · 5 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 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Spears v. Ol McCotter · Johnson v. Treen · United States v. Garcia-Pillado
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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Issues raised for the first time on appeal are not reviewable by this court unless they involve purely legal questions and failure to consider them would result in manifest injustice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unsuccessful medical treatment does not give rise to a § 1983 cause of action. Nor does ‘[m]ere negligence, neglect or medical malpractice.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sutterley v. Morris“deliberate indifference to [his] serious medical needs.”
1 later decision 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.