Strickler v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
989 F.2d 1375 · 1993
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey (1996), McMillian v. Monroe County (1997)
55 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bell v. Wolfish · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a serious or significant physical or emotional injury resulting from the challenged conditions,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the deprivation of [a] basic human need was objectively 'sufficiently serious,'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“serious deprivation of a basic human need.”
5 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.