Boretti v. Wiscomb’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 1150 · 1991
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 232 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Gutierrez v. Peters (1997), Berryman v. Rieger (1998)
30 federal appellate · 6 district · 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 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 · Whitley v. Albers · Westlake v. Lucas · Gutierrez v. Lynch
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 232 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prisoner who suffers pain needlessly when relief is readily available has a cause of action against those whose deliberate indifference is the cause of his suffering.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“deliberate indifference to serious medical needs”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sexton v. T Smith · Richmond v. Huq“burden of showing that the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, admissions and affidavits in the record, construed favorably to the non-moving party, do not raise a genuine issue of material fact for trial[,]”
2 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.