Johnson v. Busby’s Empirical Analysis
953 F.2d 349 · 1991
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Camberos v. Branstad (1995), Grayson ex rel. Estate of Grayson v. Ross (2006)
16 federal appellate · 3 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 Rhodes v. Chapman · O'Dell v. Hercules Inc.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A serious medical need is `one that is so obvious that even a layperson would easily recognize the necessity for a doctor's attention.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Jail standards, although helpful and relevant in some cases, do not represent minimum constitutional standards.”
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.