Davis v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 151 · 1993
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Frey v. City of Herculaneum (1995), Whitnack v. Douglas County (1994)
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Conley v. Gibson · Estelle v. Gamble · Bell v. Wolfish · Daniels v. Williams · California v. ARC America Corp.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Sango · Kohl v. Casson“Disagreement with a medical judgment is not sufficient to state a claim for deliberate indifference to medical needs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the absence of a clearly established standard ..., we apply the deliberate indifference standard.”
1 later decision 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.