Steading v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
941 F.2d 498 · 1991
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Steven M. Desrosiers v. John J. Moran (1991), Atkinson v. Taylor (2003)
29 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Hernandez v. New York · Wilson v. Seiter · Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney · Rendell-Baker v. Kohn
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either established the conditions to inflict wanton pain or are deliberately indifferent to whether the conditions have these effects.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Medical consequences of tobacco smoke do not differ from other medical problems. Prisoners allergic to the components of tobacco smoke, or who can attribute their serious medical conditions to smoke, are entitled to appropriate medical treatment, which may include removal from places where smoke hovers”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Talal v. White · Atkinson v. Taylor“[p]ublic officials who act in spite of an unwelcome consequence of a decision do not”
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.