McGuckin v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
974 F.2d 1050 · 1992
Citation profile
276 federal appellate · 24 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 540 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Max Lopez Jr v. Ga Smith Larry Loo a Acevedo Patterson 4a-2r (2000), Toguchi v. Soon Hwang Chung (2004)
276 federal appellate · 24 district · 6 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 · City of Canton v. Harris · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Catlin v. United States · Rhodes v. Chapman
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 540 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he existence of an injury that a reasonable doctor or patient would find important and worthy of comment or treatment; the presence of a medical condition that significantly affects an individual's daily activities; or the existence of chronic and substantial pain.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such indifference may be manifested in two ways. It may appear when prison officials deny, delay or intentionally interfere with medical treatment, or it may be shown by the way in which prison physicians provide medical care.”
15 later decisions 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.