Snipes v. Detella’s Empirical Analysis
95 F.3d 586 · 1996
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Gutierrez v. Peters (1997), Greeno v. Daley (2005)
54 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 · Farmer v. Brennan · Wilson v. Seiter · Hudson v. McMillian · Duckworth v. Franzen
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Constitution is not a medical code that mandates specific medical treatment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the Eighth Amendment is not a vehicle for bringing claims for medical malpractice”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Brown v. Hurley · Clark v. Caves“Mere negligence or even gross negligence does not constitute deliberate indifference.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.