Torraco v. Maloney’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 231 · 1991
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 43 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Simmons v. City of Philadelphia (1991), Colburn v. Upper Darby Township (1991)
30 federal appellate · 43 district · 6 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Estelle v. Gamble · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Trop v. Dulles
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] finding of deliberate indifference requires a strong likelihood, rather than a mere possibility, that self-infliction of harm will occur.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“acts or omissions so dangerous (in respect to health and safety) that a defendant's knowledge of a large risk can be inferred.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although this court has hesitated to find deliberate indifference to a serious need where the dispute concerns not the absence of help, but the choice of a certain course of treatment, deliberate indifference may be found where the attention received is so clearly inadequate as to amount to a refusal to provide essential care.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.