Dean v. Coughlin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “dental needs” accompanied by, inter alia, pain, discomfort, and “serious health consequences” constitute “serious medical needs as the law defines that term”
• concluding that where pain and discomfort are alleged “restorative services” such as filling cavities, doing root canal work, and crowning broken teeth are “serious medical needs as the law defines that term”
• “Even if prison officials give inmates access to treatment, they may still be deliberately indifferent to inmates’ needs if they fail to provide prescribed treatment.”
• “Inmates’ . . . dental needs—for fillings, crowns, and the like—are serious medical needs as the law defines that term.”
• “Even if prison officials give inmates access to treatment, they may still be deliberately indifferent to inmates’ needs if they fail to provide prescribed treatment.”
• “In- mates’ [ ] dental needs [ ] for fillings, crowns, and the like [ ] are serious medical needs as the law defines the term.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Chance v. Armstrong
  Second Circuit· 1998-05-07· cited 822×
• Harrison v. Barkley
  Second Circuit· 2000-07-17· cited 513×
• Clarkson v. Coughlin
  S.D. New York· 1995-06-16· cited 79×
• Banks v. York
  District of Columbia· 2007-09-17· cited 40×
• Rivera v. Goord
  S.D. New York· 2000-09-26· cited 40×
• Zuck v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1988-11-15· cited 29×
• Casey v. Lewis
  D. Arizona· 1993-03-19· cited 21×
• Baughman v. Garcia
  S.D. Texas· 2017-05-26· cited 14×
• Farinaro v. Coughlin
  S.D. New York· 1986-08-06· cited 10×
• Gunter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1987-05-05· cited 3×
• Office of Inmate Advocacy v. Fauver
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1988-02-01· cited 3×
• Chambers v. NH PRISON
  D. New Hampshire· 2007-12-13· cited 3×
• Dean v. Coughlin
  S.D. New York· 1986-04-01· cited 2×
• Goodnow v. Palm
  D. Vermont· 2003-05-23· cited 2×
• Dean v. Coughlin III
  Second Circuit· 1986-10-28

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Bell v. Wolfish
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-14· cited 11,438×
• Rhodes v. Chapman
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-15· cited 6,761×
• Procunier v. Martinez
  Supreme Court· 1974-04-29· cited 2,649×
• Wali v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1985-02-05· cited 264×
• Jack Kahn Music Co., Inc. v. Baldwin Piano & Organ Company
  Second Circuit· 1979-08-01· cited 187×
• Amerada Hess Corp. v. Fahy
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-24· cited 157×
• Bowen v. Gary-Northwest Indiana Women's Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-25· cited 157×
• Todaro v. Ward
  Second Circuit· 1977-10-31· cited 124×
• Jacobson & Company, Inc. v. Armstrong Cork Company
  Second Circuit· 1977-01-25· cited 110×
• Norcott Corby v. J. P. Conboy, Superintendent
  Second Circuit· 1972-03-15· cited 90×
• National Gerimedical Hospital and Gerontology Center v. Blue Cross of Kansas City
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-15· cited 81×
• Stokes v. Hurdle
  D. Maryland· 1975-03-26· cited 71×
• Church v. Hegstrom
  Second Circuit· 1969-10-09· cited 61×
• Jere Bishop v. Kent R. Stoneman, Commissioner of Corrections of the State of Vermont, and Julius v. Moeykens, Warden, Vermont State Prison
  Second Circuit· 1974-12-04· cited 55×
• Fields v. Gander
  Eighth Circuit· 1984-05-23· cited 54×
• Chapman v. Rhodes
  S.D. Ohio· 1977-06-29· cited 50×
• Todaro v. Ward
  S.D. New York· 1977-04-25· cited 36×
• Barnes v. Government of the Virgin Islands
  Virgin Islands· 1976-05-20· cited 30×
• Nicholson v. Choctaw County, Ala.
  S.D. Alabama· 1980-09-25· cited 24×