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992 F.2d 1450 · 1993

Citation profile

60
cited by 60 later decisions
August 2014
most recently cited

23 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Doe v. Claiborne County Tennessee Claiborne County Board of Education, Street v. Corrections Corp. of America (1996)

23 federal appellate ·

280199320002010decided

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 · West v. Atkins · Rizzo v. Goode · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman

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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] failure of a supervisory official to supervise, control, or train the offending individual [employees] is not actionable absent a showing that the official either encouraged or in some way directly participated in it. At a minimum a plaintiff must show that the official at least implicitly authorized, approved or know ingly acquiesced in the unconstitutional conduct of the offending [employees].”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “It is clear that a private entity which contracts with the state to perform a traditional state function such as providing medical services to prison inmates may be sued under § 1983 as one acting 'under color of state law.' "). B. 15 "A prison official's 'deliberate indifference' to a substantial risk of serious harm to an inmate violates the Eighth Amendment.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.