Watson v. Caton’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 537 · 1993
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 29 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Romero-Barcelo v. Hernandez-Agosto (1996), Reid v. State of New Hampshire (1995)
16 federal appellate · 29 district ·
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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Estelle v. Gamble · Neitzke v. Williams · Hudson v. Palmer · Wilson v. Seiter
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.
“'wanton' decisions to deny or delay care where the action is recklessness, 'not in the tort law sense but in the appreciably stricter criminal-law sense, requiring actual knowledge of impending harm, easily preventable.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The courts have consistently refused to create constitutional claims out of disagreements between prisoners and doctors about the proper course of a prisoner's medical treatment, or to conclude that simple medical malpractice rises to the level of cruel and unusual punishment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The obvious case would be a denial of needed medical treatment in order to punish the inmate.”
3 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.