Hill v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
962 F.2d 1209 · 1992
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Enterprises Inc v. Zurich Insurance Company (1996), Taylor v. Michigan Department of Corrections (1995)
28 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Estelle v. Gamble · City of Canton v. Harris · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Rizzo v. Goode
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“abandon[s] the specific duties of his position ... in the face of actual knowledge of a breakdown in the proper workings of the department.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“strong proof of a pervasive pattern of indifference”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The] evidence tended to show that the facility’s health care system was poorly run in general. A report was compiled and written by Shirley Pope, Senior Research Associate for the Correctional Institution Inspection Committee (“Committee”). The Committee was established by the Ohio legislature for the express purpose of making such reports. Her research showed that many inmates complained about not receiving medicaments, such ' that SOCF had a pervasive pattern of failing to provide proper medication for inmates. Furthermore, Morris himself testified that the pill line was closed sometimes when it should have been open, that prescriptions were not always filled or received by inmates, and that prescriptions were sometimes altered or destroyed by the head nurse without a doctors approval. Morris further testified that he knew of all of these circumstances and for months — during the very period in which Hill was allegedly not receiving his medication — he did little or nothing about it.”
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.