Davis v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 971 · 1991
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Murphy v. Walker (1995), Snipes v. Detella (1996)
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Graham v. Connor · Matzker v. Herr · Martin v. Tyson · Titran v. Ackman
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“life threatening or pose[s] a risk of needless pain or lingering disability if not treated at once.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Constitution does not demand that police obtain medical care for prisoners whose injuries appear to be slight but turn out to be serious.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was neither long enough nor deep enough to have been stitched shut”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grays v. McGrain
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.