Mendoza v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
989 F.2d 191 · 1993
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Gobert v. Caldwell (2006), Mark Anthony Harris Michael Hegmann Janet Boyd Rose James (1999)
22 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Wilson v. Seiter · Meachum v. Fano · Denton v. Hernandez
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'delay in medical care can only constitute an Eighth Amendment violation if there has been deliberate indifference which results in substantial harm.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alvarez v. Zavaras · Ragan v. Smith“It is clear that negligent medical treatment is not a cognizable basis upon which to predicate a section 1983 action”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stewart
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.